Another widely noted pro se suit comes to grief: Wisconsin judge Richard J. Sankovitz has thrown out the lawsuit filed by 17-year-old Peer Larson and his father arguing that mandatory summer homework should not have been assigned in the honors math class Larson wanted to take (see Jan. 21). “Had the Larsons done a bit more homework, they would have discovered that the people of our state granted to the Legislature … the power to establish school boards and the state superintendent and to confer upon them the powers and duties the Legislature saw fit,” wrote the judge in his order (PDF, courtesy Courthouse News). (AP/Janesville, Wis. Gazette, Mar. 9).
“Judge throws out lawsuit over summer homework”
Another widely noted pro se suit comes to grief: Wisconsin judge Richard J. Sankovitz has thrown out the lawsuit filed by 17-year-old Peer Larson and his father arguing that mandatory summer homework should not have been assigned in the honors math class Larson wanted to take (see Jan. 21). “Had the Larsons done a bit […]
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