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Avon High School Religious Indoctrination Lawsuit Reaches Settlement

- March 19, 2018

The Board of Education at Avon High School recently agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed against it almost four years ago that “claimed three teachers and a guidance counselor at the school had indoctrinated two former students into a religious cult.” The lawsuit itself was filed by a family whose children attended the school. According to the family’s lawsuit, “three teachers and a guidance counselor exerted an improper influence on their three daughters and alienated two of them from the rest of the family.”

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Whole Foods Under Fire for Alleged Racial and Pregnancy Discrimination

- March 16, 2018

Discrimination is never okay, especially when it’s directed towards someone who is or was recently pregnant. One woman in Tallahassee, Florida learned just how awful it feels to be discriminated against, and decided to file a lawsuit as a result. Kissi Moore, a former employee at Whole Foods, is an African-American woman who claims in her pregnancy and racial discrimination lawsuit against the supermarket chain that she was “treated unfairly after her pregnancy and because of her race.”

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Edina High School’s Young Conservative Club Wins Free Speech Lawsuit

- March 14, 2018

After filing a lawsuit against Edina High School, the school district, principal, and superintendent over alleged discrimination, student members of the Young Conservatives Club (YCC) recently agreed to a settlement that will result in their club being reinstated at the school. In filing the lawsuit, the YCC students “charged the school with violating students’ rights of freedom of speech and of association, equal access, and not abiding by federal laws and codes for the U.S. Flag.” But what did the school do to prompt the lawsuit in the first place?

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Baltimore Judge Rules That Keeping Transgender Teen Out of Boys’ Locker Room Is Discrimination

- March 14, 2018

A Baltimore judge ruled that barring a transgender teen from using the boys’ locker room is tantamount to discrimination and “harms his health and well-being.” According to The Washington Post, Max Brennan – a transgender boy from Maryland’s Eastern Shore – was offered an unusual sort of accommodation. Brennan, per district policy, had to change

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Settlement Announced, Ending Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Pepe the Frog Paintings

- March 13, 2018

A copyright infringement lawsuit was recently settled between the artist who “created Pepe the Frog” and Missouri native Jessica Logsdon. The artist, Matt Furie, originally filed the lawsuit because he alleged that Logsdon misused the “character to sell hate-promoting oil paintings.” This isn’t the first lawsuit Furie has filed over his character, Pepe, though. On his “campaign to reclaim his creation from far-right extremists who hijacked Pepe, mixing images of Furie’s ‘chill frog-dude’ with Nazi symbols and other hateful imagery,” he also filed a lawsuit against Infowars, a “conspiracy-promoting website…for selling a poster that included an image of Pepe.”

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