The claims arise out of “UPMC’s purported disclosure of their confidential medical information to [child protection authorities] for the purpose of targeting them with highly intrusive, humiliating and coercive child abuse investigations starting before taking their newborn babies home from UPMC’s hospitals shortly after childbirth.”
held to be vague and therefore unenforceable.
"The suspect then intervened, deployed pepper spray and sprayed the victim, before fleeing the scene on foot," according to the police.
State-level "gag orders" on teaching certain texts and ideas are terrible and utterly predictable in a one-size-fits-all K-12 educational system.
You are not for school choice or parents’ rights when you try to ban race and LGBT subjects in private education.
The broken foster system for Native American kids is finally up for Supreme Court scrutiny.
ACLU: “The agency’s new rule substitutes parents’ judgment as to what medical care is in the best interests of their children for the judgment of the government.”
These orders aren’t about safety. They’re a complete rejection of the legitimacy of these procedures, and a denial of individual liberty.
N.Y. appellate court reverses the order.
Under H.B. 1557, only the most conservative parents will decide what everybody else’s kids will learn about sexual orientation or gender identity.
The hearing was virtual, because of the epidemic.
"[T]he Fourth Amendment applies equally whether the government official is a police officer conducting a criminal investigation or a caseworker conducting a civil child welfare investigation."
"The market was asking that anyone who didn't need to go into the store to please stay outside," she says.
Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.
"When my daughter was 12 she'd walk down the streets of Shanghai to get donuts," says the mom, Megan McMurry.
While libertarians will be inclined to applaud some of the new laws, others exemplify familiar conservative excesses.
Only in extreme circumstances should a court come between a parent and their child.
It’s legal for doctors to give kids the Pfizer vaccine, but Pfizer isn’t allowed to say so.
So holds a Ninth Circuit panel (by a 2-1 vote), evaluating the California closure rules.
"We thought they helped people."
"I didn't think it was a big deal," says Kim Blalock. "My son is perfectly fine."
No, says the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, though over a dissent.
"I'm getting it out there to make people aware," said JaNay Dodson in an interview.
even when the parents had originally agreed not to vaccinate, and one parent later changed his mind.
Everyday parenting decisions should not put people at risk of getting arrested, losing their kids, or being listed on a state registry for child endangerment.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court 5-2 majority concludes that the injunction is "content-neutral," quite erroneously, I think.
Pandemic chaos is driving families to flee government institutions in search of education that better suits their needs.
Flexible education crafted to meet family needs is destined to prevail over failing government schools.
Plus: What Jeffrey Toobin teaches us about Section 230, Wisconsin's Foxconn boondoggle, Breonna Taylor juror speaks out, and more...
"If you're on that registry, you're bad."
As usual, at this point in the litigation the key questions focus on procedure.
An important decision from the Massachusetts high court.
rejecting Fourth Amendment and substantive due process arguments against it.
Child services falsely labeled this dad an abuser and took his adopted newborn.
And five examples of parents wisely letting their kids go—and grow.
The new right naively thinks a government more empowered to "protect children" would be good for families. Nope.
"It’s an epidemic across our nation," one parent told NBC.