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A recent Department of Education investigation focuses on the tension between student and teacher free speech rights, the Free Exercise versus Establishment clauses, and the difference between respect and approval. The facts as alleged in the articles are as follows. Apparently a high school girl asked a teacher, First Sergeant…
Recent Court Cases Go Both Ways. Five recent decisions on the HHS mandate involve Christian for-profit companies. Each of these companies objected to providing contraceptives and sterilization, abortifacients, or both on religious grounds, and filed a lawsuit to avoid having to do so. Three decisions granted a preliminary injunction to…

Helping Missionaries and their Agencies

Theresa Sidebotham and Brent Lindquist of Link Care Center start the Rock and Hard Place Blog to help missionary organizations with member care-related legal and psychological issues... Read More →

Sometimes when school boards worry about endorsing religion, they go too far the other way. This seems to have happened when fourth-grade J.G. was not allowed to hand out his Easter Egg Hunt invitations. A Florida federal court granted a preliminary injunction in favor of his student speech in Gilio v. School Board of Hillsborough County on October 5, 2012. It reasoned that J.G. was likely to win his arguments that the school had violated his constitutional rights.

A woman elder, a church employee, vehemently disagreed with her senior pastor’s position on a particular issue. She insisted on pushing her position until the Session finally fired her. Then she sued the church. But the Court agreed with the church that the government has no business telling the church how to manage its leadership.

On August 29, 2012, the Eighth Circuit decided in favor of Child Evangelism Fellowship in Child Evangelism Fellowship v. Minneapolis Special Sch. Dist. No. 1.  It reversed the denial of CEF’s preliminary injunction where it had tried to stop a school district in Minnesota from limiting school facility access for…
Here is the church And here is the steeple. But does it belong To the group or the people? Church property disputes are painful and usually contentious. Usually, though not always, they begin when a congregation wants to leave the denomination, often over doctrinal fidelity. Because it is a dispute…
Blog of reflections on parenting children with special needs. If you have been judged for having kids with brain chemistry issues, read it to be encouraged about your own family.  If not, read it to understand another family you may be tempted to judge. http://www.melanieboudreau.com/

My blog post today has nothing to do with the law for children with special needs. Instead, I want to offer a resource for living with children with special needs, especially when they have behavioral issues. I want to introduce my good friend, Melanie Boudreau, a brilliant, funny, wise woman. When she and I too rarely manage to carve out time for hiking, skiing, or camping, it's always a great time of sharing ideas and laughing together. Melanie started this blog of reflections on parenting children with special needs. If you are one of us who has been judged for having kids with brain chemistry issues, read it to be encouraged about your own family.  If not, read it to understand another family you may be tempted to judge.

http://www.melanieboudreau.com/

Playdate Behavioral Interventions, located in Colorado Springs, is a nonprofit organization providing a full range of services to children with disabilities, including applied behavioral analysis therapy and respite care. A considerable number of their patients have autism spectrum disorder. They work with children of all ages in one-on-one or small…