Several appeals courts are distorting clear recent precedents against infringing parents' right to direct religious upbringing of children, challenge to West Virginia's idiosyncratic school vaccine mandate says.
By Susan Quinn The 9th Circuit, the most overturned by the Supreme Court in the nation, appears to do it again.
A coalition of 17 states, lawmakers and advocacy organizations has filed 12 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold that parents and teachers have constitutional rights to know about their children despite public school gender policies.
A federal appellate court shot down on Thursday a rogue judge’s bid to “defy” the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision permitting lawmakers to regulate abortion policy. In a newly released order, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily paused an August ruling by Idaho-based Senior District Judge B. Lynn Winmill. The Clinton appointee seemingly infringed […]
Clinton nominee invented constitutional right to "therapeutic" abortion found nowhere in precedents or history of state abortion regulation, usurped Legislature and voters ahead of ballot vote, AG and lawmakers tell 9th Circuit.
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its […] The post Ninth Circuit upholds firing of Oregon educator who displayed children's books on biological sex appeared first on American Almanac .
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its split ruling on July 21 in the case of Roderick Theis, a licensed clinical social worker employed by the InterMountain Education Service District in rural Oregon. Theis kept three children's books in his office: Johnny the Walrus by Matt Walsh, and He Is He and She Is She by Ryan and Bethany Bomberger. All three books present sex as binary and immutable. IMESD characterized the display as a "hostile…Open
An appeals court has affirmed a lower court's decision blocking the Department of Defense from removing current transgender servicemembers.
Appeals court judges said they were joining with other courts in limiting the reach of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Briefs ask 9th Circuit to overturn judge who said its precedent required him to find 8th Amendment right to "gender confirming surgery" for child sexual abuser. Judge got it backward on what's "cruel and unusual," ethics group says.