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Today the parents of 12 children with disabilities asked the court to immediately prohibit the Governor and his administration from enforcing Executive Order 2 against Virginia school districts and allow school districts the authority to keep in place the masking requirements.
Parents of children with disabilities in Virginia’s public schools filed a federal lawsuit today challenging Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order 2, which provides that parents of students attending Virginia public schools can elect for their children to not be subjected to mask mandates at their sch
The ACLU of Virginia announced today that a settlement agreement was reached in Burke v. Clarke, a federal lawsuit on behalf of Randy Burke, a practicing Rastafarian who was put in solitary confinement for over five years for refusing to cut his hair.
The following statement can be attributed to the ACLU-VA Executive Director Mary Bauer:
The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild announced today the voluntary recognition of its employees’ union.
Alliance Defending Freedom and its clients are casting this as a free speech and religious freedom issue, but each public school teacher has an obligation to comply with the law and policies of their school district and to respect, protect, and educate all their students.