First and Fourteenth was proud to file an amicus brief on behalf of Moms for Liberty in the case Wailes v. Jefferson County Public Schools. The case is currently pending before the Tenth Circuit.
After preparing for months for her school district’s fifth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., an 11-year old girl arrived at her hotel room and learned that she had to share a bed with a boy. Separately, an 18-year old high school female identified as a male to serve as a counselor in a sixth grade, all-boys cabin at the district’s mountain retreat. The students’ parents were not aware of these rooming arrangements. After parents in Colorado’s Jefferson County Public School District learned about the Transgender Policy that facilitated these rooming arrangements, some parents raised religious and moral objections to the Policy. Jeffco refused to accommodate them.
The parents and students, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, sued Jeffco for infringing on their constitutional liberties. After the trial court dismissed their claims, the parents and students appealed.
Moms for Liberty filed an amicus brief in support of the parents, arguing that parents have a fundamental right to direct their children’s education. The brief traces the parental right from its common law roots to the present and contends that Jeffco infringed on the parents’ liberty. The brief also emphasizes the risk to parental rights throughout the Circuit if Jeffco’s Transgender Policy is upheld.
Attorneys for Amicus Curiae Moms for Liberty: Julian Ellis & Rob Bucknam
Read Brief Here: Brief of Amicus Curiae Moms for Liberty in Support of Appellants and Reversal