TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 28, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to consider an appeal from a Virginia school board in a long-running battle over bathroom access, effectively handing a victory to transgender student Gavin Grimm, SCOTUSblog reports. The development leaves in place a federal appeals court ruling in favor of Grimm, a transgender student who first sued his school district in 2015 for access to the boys’ bathroom. In other action today, the justices added a First Amendment case and an immigration case to their docket for next term. And they ordered a lower court to take a closer look at a wrongful-death lawsuit by the parents of a man who died after police officers pinned him to the ground while he was handcuffed.