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• In re Recall Charges Against Seattle Sch. Dist. Dir. Butler-Wall, No. 79869-9 (Wash. Dec. 12, 2007) [HTML 1,480kb]
  The Washington State Supreme Court has rejected a petition for a recall election of members of the Seattle School District No. 1’s school board.
  
• Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Educ. of City of New York, No. 06-0725 (2d Cir. July 2, 2007) [HTML 4,335kb]
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has lifted a permanent injunction barring the City of New York Board of Education (NYCBOE) from enforcing its revised facilities use policy that prohibits outside groups from using school facilities for religious worship.
  
• Bacon v. City of Richmond, No. 06-1347 (4th Cir. Jan. 23, 2007) [HTML 4,099kb]
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled that a settlement agreement between disabled students and the Richmond, Virginia, school board that required the board to retrofit all its schools to bring them into compliance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) did not impose the same duty on the City of Richmond in the absence of a finding or admission of liability.
  
• Child Evangelism Fellowship of S.C. v. Anderson Sch. Dist. Five, No. 06-1819 (4th Cir. Dec. 15, 2006) [HTML 5,605kb]
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled that a South Carolina school district violated a religious group’s free speech rights when it denied the group’s request to waive a facilities use fee.
  
• RJB Properties v. Bd. of Educ. of the City of Chicago, No 06-1547 (7th Cir. Nov. 15, 2006) [HTML 4,172kb]
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that a lower court properly dismissed a lawsuit by a vendor that claimed its Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection and due process were violated when the school board of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) denied it two contracts to provide janitorial services.
  
• SDC v. London Towne Property Owners Ass’n, No. 94 (Md. Nov. 9, 2006) [HTML 2,884kb]
  The Maryland Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has ruled that the purchaser of a parcel of land did not violate a restrictive covenant, which required the land to remain undeveloped other than for educational facilities “in conjunction with” the local school board, when it constructed a building on the land to be used by a private college.
  
• Child Evangelism Fellowship of South Carolina v. Anderson School District 5, No. 04-1866 (D. S.C. July 7, 2006) [HTML 6,445kb]
  A South Carolina federal district court has ruled that a school district did not violate an outside religious group’s constitutional rights by refusing to waive its facilities usage fee.
  
• Taetle v. Atlanta Independent School System, No. 05-1632 (Ga. Jan. 17, 2006) [HTML 2,057kb]
  The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a school district's decision to rent classroom space from a church in order to hold classes did not violate the state constitution's proscription against the use of public funds to aid religious institutions.
  
• Volvo Trucks North America Inc. v. Reeder-Simco GMC Inc., No. 04-905 (U.S. Jan. 10, 2006) [HTML 2,853kb]
  The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 that Volvo Trucks North America Inc., a manufacturer of heavy trucks and buses, did not violate the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA), an anti-trust law, by providing one dealership with price discounts and concessions for its products not offered to another dealer, where those dealers were not in competition for the same customers.