Mickes Goldman O’Toole Education Practice lawyers have helped school districts navigate the fine balance between constitutional rights of students and the rights of educational institutions. The firm has litigated the first federal case in which a court held that a student did not have the constitutional right to participate in extracurricular activities. Thus, upholding a school board’s right to establish standards for participation in such activities. Firm attorneys have successfully defended a district’s right to bar the wearing of a Confederate flag and other racially divisive items.