By Marcia Coyle | October 20, 2022
Barrett issued the denial without comment one day after the emergency application was filed.
By Marcia Coyle | October 19, 2022
Plaintiffs have filed lawsuits challenging the program in a number of jurisdictions.
By Allison Dunn | October 17, 2022
"Plaintiff's claim that Liberty owed her a duty to take administrative action either before or after a sexual assault fails because such a duty is not recognized in Virginia," wrote U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon of the Western District of Virginia. "Second, Plaintiff argues that Liberty had a duty to Plaintiff via Oasis Defendants' actions, because The Oasis is a 'de facto' student dormitory ... This claim fails as well. As mentioned above, Liberty does not have a special relationship to Plaintiff solely by virtue of being the university she attended. Now, assume arguendo that a close relationship exists between Liberty and Oasis Defendants such that Oasis Defendants' duties became Liberty's. Even then, Oasis Defendants ... had no duty to Plaintiff."
By Amanda Bronstad | October 13, 2022
A Seattle jury rendered its award on Thursday to six adults and seven children who alleged they suffered brain damage after being exposed to PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyls, at a school in the state of Washington.
By Brad Kutner | October 12, 2022
"The law school is moving forward on its central commitments and we are focused on educating the next generation of lawyers and instilling them with the values so many of us hold dear," said dean Heather Gerken.
By Colleen Murphy | October 7, 2022
"I believe that there is going to be another wave of litigation," said attorney Laura L. Dunn. "I don't think that this current administration has thought through all the implications of having such specific regulations. The Trump administration firmly grabbed the wheel and shifted it one direction, and unfortunately, the same thing is now being done where we have hyper-specific regulations rather than giving schools back some level of autonomy."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Christopher L. Harris | October 7, 2022
Title IX of the educational amendments of 1972 (Title IX) guarantees that, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
By Colleen Murphy | October 3, 2022
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reaffirmed the court's pleading standard for Title VII and Title IX claims in a case reviewing a tenured professor's complaint that Princeton University violated his civil rights when he was terminated in 2018.
By Allison Dunn | September 29, 2022
"It is a travesty that two generations of special needs children were deprived of the educational and due process rights to which they were entitled under the IDEA and U.S. Constitution," said Bill Merrill, an attorney with Susman Godfrey. "This lawsuit is a critical step toward improving how Virginia schools treat this vulnerable population."
By Colleen Murphy | September 28, 2022
"By accepting the trip, when it was not necessary as a 'means of learning about Woz U's programs,'" the per curiam opinion said, "and no other District personnel found it necessary to accept the trip to better understand the programs being offered, Capers violated N.J.S.A. 18A:12-24.1(c)."
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