Injunction Not Warranted For Parent Barred From School Grounds During COVID-19

(September 17, 2024, 9:00 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A panel of the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of an Iowa federal court, which denied a preliminary injunction to a school parent who sued a school district alleging deprivation of his First Amendment rights in sending him a notice of trespass preventing him from attending school board meetings because of his allegedly disruptive and threatening behavior in protest of the board’s masking and vaccination policies during the COVID-19 pandemic....