Since the firm began, our clients have come to expect practical, constructive advice that considers their best interests.
Education Law: Litigation
Over the past thirty years, the law firm of Sullivan, Schoen, Campane & Connon, LLC has won a number of groundbreaking cases in both state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court, establishing legal precedents that are repeatedly cited by courts and scholarly works on education law that are used in both law schools and in education classes. No firm in Connecticut has created a more favorable body of law on behalf of school districts.
Our attorneys take a proactive approach to the law, working with our clients to minimize exposure to litigation. We provide clients with model procedures and policies, and we conduct numerous in-services and seminars for Board members, administrators and instructional staff. Although no amount of preventive measures can guarantee that litigation will never occur, our attorneys help position clients so that if a lawsuit is filed, our clients will be in a strong position to prevail.
The firm’s litigation lawyers defend clients on both the trial and appellate levels against a variety of education, employment, and constitutional law claims brought pursuant to the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act and other state statutes, as well as common-law claims of wrongful discharge, breach of contract, negligent hiring, negligent supervision and emotional distress.
The impact our firm has had on the law can be seen in the United States Supreme Court decision we obtained regarding religious accommodations in the workplace, which has subsequently been cited in almost 300 other cases, both across the United States and in Canada. Our attorneys also practice before numerous state and federal administrative agencies, including the American Arbitration Association and the State Department of Labor.
Our attorneys have initiated lawsuits on behalf of school boards in order to protect their interests. When a municipality sought to enact ordinances and schedule a special election in an attempt to unseat school board members and obtain more direct control over the school district, our firm went to court and had the ordinances voided and the election stayed. When unionizing workers went on strike and shut down a private bus company, we went to court and obtained an injunction that forced the end of the strike and got the buses rolling.
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