Adam Shelton

Basically, in every one of these cases, the government or the school has filed what's known as a motion to dismiss.

So it prevents discovery from happening.

It prevents any sort of fact finding from happening.

So right now, there are two other cases besides Amber's case that are on appeal to this U.S.

Supreme Court.

And there have been others in recent years where, again, Justice Alito has noted that

Lower courts have been using kind of fancy procedural mechanisms to evade answering these questions.

And this case prevents another one of those situations.

So we're hopeful the Supreme Court will take up this case, one of these other cases soon, and really answer an important national question about what parental rights mean, especially in a public school setting.

That's something the court chooses to do, and I would say that those other two cases aren't really relevant to this particular case, which really just involves parental rights and parental notice.

There are other parental rights claims that are currently pending, and this case could potentially be combined with one of those, or the Supreme Court may do something known as essentially pausing this case.

If they take up one of those other cases while they decide one of those other cases.

But that's all largely up to the Supreme Court and not really kind of one of our choices that we have.

All we can do is, you know, petition the court to take up the case and say this is a really pressing national issue that needs their intervention.

So the Supreme Court is going to consider this issue.

The school board has until January 28th to reply to the petition.

That just depends on when the Supreme Court wants to review it.

And it's really up to them.

But we're very hopeful that the Supreme Court can take a serious look at this at this case because it does present an issue of national importance.

Thank you.