e-Journal Summary

e-Journal Number : 82600
Opinion Date : 11/01/2024
e-Journal Date : 11/15/2024
Court : U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit
Case Name : Parents Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Local Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ.
Practice Area(s) : School Law Constitutional Law
Judge(s) : Sutton, Moore, Clay, Griffin, Kethledge, Stranch, Thapar, Bush, Larsen, Nalbandian, Readler, Murphy, Davis, Mathis, Bloomekatz, and Ritz
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Issues:

Injunctive relief; Likelihood of success on the merits of a free speech claim; Whether defendant-school district’s gender identity policy conformed with the standards for regulating student speech established in Tinker v Des Moines Indep Cmty Sch Dist; “Compelled speech”; “Viewpoint discrimination”; Overbreadth challenge

Summary

In an order after a majority of the court voted for a rehearing en banc, the court vacated the original panel’s decision and judgment (see e-Journal 82035 in the 8/8/24 edition), stayed the mandate, and restored the case to the docket as a pending appeal. The original panel affirmed the district court’s denial of plaintiff-parent organization’s request to preliminarily enjoin defendant-school district’s gender-identity policies relating to pronoun use because it was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its free speech claim.

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