(May 14, 2026): Just The News covers Southeastern Legal Foundation’s (SLF) recent Supreme Court appeal on behalf of parent Miranda Stovall, who wants to know what sort of questions are being asked in surveys in her child’s school. The surveys come from groups like Pearson, which notoriously ask questions about children’s mental health and “push[] radical ideologies.” Ms. Stovall’s school district refused to produce copies of the survey to her, claiming the surveys are copyrighted. But when Miranda tried to file a lawsuit in federal court under the federal copyright law, the federal court ruled it was a state court issue.

Now, Ms. Stovall is asking the Supreme Court to rule that her case can be heard in federal court. If not, public schools will have a very effective tool for hiding surveys and curriculum from parents by simply claiming copyright.

Just The News reports on the common practice by state entities of invoking copyright to avoid producing records despite state open records laws. In one of the most recent and infamous instances, a Tennessee court denied the release of the manifesto belonging to the Covenant School shooting suspect, claiming it was protected by copyright.

Ms. Stovall stated, “Without the records, I can’t go to a school board meeting and address my concerns with the school board or go to other parents and show them what is happening in our schools.”

As Just The News explains, SLF argues in its Supreme Court petition on behalf of Ms. Stovall, “‘Without clarity about in which court they must file suit, parents are forced to play a jurisdictional shell game’ in which defendants can ‘tie up parents in expensive jurisdictional litigation for years’ – potentially getting an answer only after their kids have graduated – or a federal court could overturn a state court decision on the copyright question.”

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