The Brandeis Center and the law firm of Cohen Williams LLP filed a complaint against the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) and the PAUSD’s Board of Education in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, alleging that PAUSD and the Board violated California’s open meeting laws, the Brown Act, by misleading the public about an important agenda item involving the district’s ethnic studies curriculum. Press Release (7/21/2025) Complaint (7/21/2025)