New York education officials have refused to rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite ...

Stormin’ Normin, the cyclone-canine hybrid mascot representing the Center Point-Urbana Stormin’ Pointers, was crowned best high school mascot in America by Sports Illustrated on May 13 after ...

The US Department of Education (DOE) announced Friday that New York state has violated federal civil rights law by banning Native American school mascots while permitting mascots derived from other ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Youngstown City School District is preparing for ... s help with naming the new schools and choosing a mascot. An online survey is available on the district ...

Traditionally, civil forfeiture was justified as a particularized law-enforcement mechanism, designed to punish a specific wrongdoing. Today, however, civil forfeiture functions frequently as a ...

filed a formal complaint with the OCR over the Massapequa School District eliminating its “Chiefs” mascot because it is based on Native American culture. NAGA argues that this ban violates federal ...

On Monday, the university held its annual ceremony at the World War I Memorial on Hewitt Quadrangle, honoring generations of alumni veterans since Yale’s inception. The week before, the Law School ...

The state Board of Regents in 2023 banned the use of Native American mascots, team names and logos ... said Vincent Bonventre, an Albany Law School professor who studies state and federal courts.

It said the Board of Regents was violating federal antidiscrimination law by "forcing the Massapequa School District to eliminate its ‘Chiefs’ mascot based on its association with Native American ...

The Department of Education launched an investigation regarding Massapequa High School's mascot, the Chiefs ... violated federal civil rights law by enforcing the regulation.

which demanded its historic Chiefs mascot be preserved. McMahon in a visit to the school on Friday argued the state’s order violates the law. “This is not a First Amendment case, this is a ...

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