On March 21, 2024, the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the federal District of Minnesota’s dismissal of a discrimination and retaliation case where the Upper Midwest Law Center’s client, Aaron Norgren, had objected to the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ mandatory critical-race-theory and gender-nonbinary “trainings” and was later refused the chance to interview for a promotion.
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Center of the American Experiment Sues Minnesota Department of Education for Withholding Public Data on Controversial Ethnic Studies K-12 Framework
On December 2, 2024, Center of the American Experiment (CAE), represented by the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC), filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and