http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2016/09/26/feds-investigating-gender-discrimination-lansing-school-district/91111834/ LANSING – The Lansing School District’s decision to create gender-based classrooms at Willow Elementary and its response to a...
PRACTICE AREAS Municipal Law Personal Injury Family Law Civil Rights Law Probate Elder Law Related Litigation Karen is the Lansing presence of the Vezina Law Group and functions as Of Counsel to the firm. She is the principal of The Temperance Legal Group, PLLC in...
A 13-year-old boy from Staten Island, New York, took his own life on Thursday after being bullied by classmates at school. In teenager Daniel Fitzpatrick’s tragic suicide note, which was supplied by his parents to The New York Daily News, he claimed that his old...
Punishment "regardless of consent" Two teenage students from Eastern High School have come forward about being sexually assaulted. And, one of them was punished under District policy forbidding sexual conduct. "She was suspended for lewd and lascivious behavior, for...
LANSING, MI -- A second Lansing Eastern High student has filed a Title IX lawsuit alleging that administrators acted with deliberate indifference after she was sexually assaulted at the school. The federal lawsuit was brought by a 14-year-old girl and is the second...
A Michigan teenager filed a complaint June 7 stating a school suspended her for being lewd after she was sexually assaulted on camera. In October 2015, an unidentified fourteen-year-old girl complained to Eastern High School officials she had been sexually assaulted,...
A 14-year-old student was raped at school. Though her assault was caught on a security camera, administrators allegedly concluded that she was complicit because she didn't fight back enough. They also suggested that she could have insulted her attacker's penis....
Click the "Courthouse News Service" logo for more info! LANSING, Mich. (CN) — A Michigan school district had security footage of a child's sexual assault but suspended the girl anyway for "lewd behavior," she claims in a federal complaint. The June 7 complaint...
LANSING, Mich (WLNS) – We first told you about a sexual assault inside of Eastern High School back in April. The victim’s family filed a “notice of intent” two months ago threatening a lawsuit. This story continues to develop. As of now there are two open cases...