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Law Firms See Opportunity in Wave of Campus Sex Claims

Day Pitney and Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman hope to capitalize on what they see as a huge demand from colleges and universities facing sexual misconduct investigations.
14 minute read

Law.com

George Mason Law School To Become Antonin Scalia School of Law

George Mason University School of Law will be renamed for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at the request of an anonymous donor who gave $20 million to the school, university leaders announced Thursday.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Malcolm v. Honeoye Falls-Lima Education Assoc.

By | March 31, 2016
Reconsideration Denied on Claims Union Discriminated Against Teacher Due Sex, Race
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

What Steps to Take if You're a Title IX Respondent

Every semester, students across U.S. college campuses face serious accusations of sexual misconduct stemming from their colleges' Title IX policies. Often, the charges leveled against students use terms borrowed from the criminal code, such as "sexual assault" or "rape."
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Harassment Problem Is Bigger than Berkeley

Colleges are grappling with new rules and expectations in light of the U.S. Depart­ment of Education's heightened enforcement of Title IX, which protects students and school employees from sex discrimination, harassment and assault, say employment and education law experts.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Supreme Court OKs Three-Judge Court Rules

The new rule applies to newly filed and pending redistricting or school finance cases. That means the current school finance case—if remanded to trial court—could be subject to a three-judge court.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Clarence Thomas Will Teach in France this Summer, Replacing Scalia

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will replace his late colleague Antonin Scalia for a summer teaching position in France in July—the first of possibly several substitutes for Scalia, who taught abroad frequently. The Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego announced this week that Thomas agreed to join its summer program in Nice, France, after Scalia's death on Feb. 13 at a Texas ranch. Thomas will teach a course titled "Constitutional Law in a Global Context."
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Morning Wrap: Merrick Garland Keeps His Day Job (Sort Of) | Jury Sides With Law School in Data Suit

This is a roundup from ALM and other publications: Obama takes to an op-ed to urge the Senate to consider Merrick Garland for the U.S. Supreme Court. Garland's EPA record: It's clean (for the agency, at least). But Garland won't be hearing D.C. Circuit cases anytime soon. A jury sides with Thomas Jefferson School of Law in a former student's suit over job data. And Jill Kelley, the Florida woman who sued the government over the David Petraeus investigation, drops her privacy case.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Grad Loses Job-Data Trial Against Thomas Jefferson Law School

Thomas Jefferson School of Law did not defraud an alum by inflating its graduate employment statistics, a San Diego jury found on Thursday.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Importance of Comprehensive Transition Plans Under the IDEA

Several years ago, our office ­represented a student by the name of A.S. A.S. is considered "intellectually disabled." Statistics tell us that the chances of him enrolling in post-secondary education are small, around 30 percent, and his odds of attending a four-year college are even less likely, about 5 percent.
15 minute read

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