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Managing Attorney Jonathan Vogel, together with lawyers from Ward and Smith, P.A., filed a brief with the NC Supreme Court yesterday seeking a reversal of a panel of the NC Court of Appeals. Parents should be permitted to assert legal claims against private schools, like Charlotte Latin School, that are alleged to have expelled young children in retaliation for the parents seeking to discuss, consistent with the board's express direction and the provisions of the enrollment agreement, the school's sudden change in curriculum and culture and its focus on a political agenda. ⚖️📓🍎

Parents of expelled Charlotte private school students seek top NC court’s help Parents of two students kicked out of Charlotte Latin School in 2021 are asking North Carolina’s highest court to permit a lawsuit against the school to move forward. Doug and Nicole Turpin argue that the school breached its contract with the family when it expelled the two Turpin children.

In a case involving alleged deceptive practices and misrepresentations by student loan servicer PHEAA against a borrower, Managing Attorney Jonathan Vogel filed a petition for a writ of certiorari today requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court resolve a circuit split on the issue of whether derivative sovereign immunity (federal contractor immunity) is an affirmative defense or a jurisdictional issue.