Posted on 04/17/2026 1:13:37 PM PDT by Twotone
Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court put a stop to public-sector labor unions imposing fees on non-members as a condition of work, invalidating 22 state laws and prompting a precipitous drop in union membership, it reinstated a permanent injunction against California's so-called gender secrecy policies in schools as a likely violation of parental rights.
The high court now has an opportunity to alchemize these disparate precedents into protection for parents' constitutional rights against state labor regulators with Galactus-sized jurisdictional appetites.
Sacramento-area Rocklin Unified School District petitioned SCOTUS to review cursory California court rulings that upheld the invalidation of its parental notification policy for students who identify as the opposite sex, with the Golden State's Public Employee Relations Board saying it violated the collective bargaining agreement.
Fifteen months ago PERB affirmed a ruling by its administrative law judge, ordering the district to rescind the disclosure regulations its board approved in fall 2023. A California appeals court affirmed the ruling in a single-sentence, October 2025 order, and the state Supreme Court denied the district's review petition Jan. 14.
"This raises a critical question: Does California’s PERB system, where PERB almost always rules in favor of the union, and which requires no judicial oversight, violate the due process rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment – particularly where those decisions affect protected constitutional rights?" asked RUSD's lawyers at the Liberty Justice Center.
Rocklin Unified has fought a two-front war to protect its parental notification policy, with California Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta denouncing the district for the "forced outing" of "transgender and gender-nonconforming students" the day after it adopted the policy.
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I’ve lost any sympathy for parents who send their children to public school.
Close the public schools.
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