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The Legal Intelligencer

Gifted Students' Right to an Appropriate Education Under Pa. Law

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law that ensures special education to eligible children with disabilities. The IDEA governs how states address the educational needs of children with disabilities. Pursuant to the IDEA, each child with a disability must be provided with a free appropriate public education (FAPE) that prepares them for further education, employment and independent living. A FAPE is the standard of education that is guaranteed by the IDEA to be provided to all children between the ages of 3 and 21. FAPE requires that each eligible child receive a program of special education and related services individually designed to meet his or her unique needs, from which that child must obtain meaningful educational benefit. FAPE must be provided in conformity with an ­individualized ­education plan.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Providing Student Travel Programs: Risky Business

Thomas A. Dickerson and Sheri S. Roman review cases involving students injured or killed while traveling abroad and the liability of the program organizers, including the claims of a student whose school failed to warn her of the risk of insect-borne disease in China, a complaint brought by the family of a student who died after a fall during a wilderness expedition in the Himalayas, and more.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

Arizona College of Law Will Accept GRE Instead of LSAT

No LSAT score? No problem—at least at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. The law school in Tucson will become the first to accept applications from prospective students who have taken the GRE General Test instead of the LSAT, administrators announced Wednesday.
5 minute read

Law.com

Nationalized Bar Exam Endorsed by ABA

Bar admission authorities across the nation should move quickly to adopt the uniform bar exam, the American Bar Association's House of Delegates decided Monday.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In re Petition of Bd. of Dir. of Scranton Sch. Dist., PICS Case No. 16-0143 (C.P. (Lackawanna Dec. 3, 2015) Nealon, J. (19 pages).

By | February 06, 2016
The Scranton School District made a sufficient showing under the Local Government Unit Debt Act to warrant judicial approval of its petition to issue bonds to fund the unfunded debt it incurred as a result of its nonreceipt of state subsidies due to a state budget impasse. School district's petition to issue bonds granted.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Doe v. Mercy Catholic Med. Ctr., PICS Case No. 16-0165 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 26, 2016) Baylson, J. (11 pages).

By | February 06, 2016
Title IX bars discrimination on the basis of sex in "any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." Ruling on an issue of apparent first impression in the Third Circuit, the district court dismissed plaintiff's allegation that Title IX applied to a medical resident working at a medical center.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Estate of Stephen Girard, PICS Case No. 16-0148 (Pa. Commw. Jan. 21, 2016) Simpson, J. (29 pages).

By | February 06, 2016
The removal of a boarding program and high school grades at a trust-funded primary and secondary school did not constitute a mere administrative deviation from the charitable trust. Order of the orphans' court affirmed.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Education Law Expert Tapped As University of Houston Interim President

Officials at the University of Houston have tapped Michael Olivas, a prominent expert on education and immigration law, as the interim president of the university's downtown campus. Olivas, a former president of the Association of American Law Schools, has taught at the University of Houston Law Center since 1982.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Villanova Law Dean Takes University President Job in Hawaii

A week after announcing a $25 million donation and name change, Villanova University's law school is losing its dean. John Gotanda, who has led the newly renamed Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law since 2011, was appointed Monday as the next president of Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu. He will take over on June 1.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Video Gaming the Supreme Court Justices

In the contest for the hearts and minds of Americans — and, indirectly, of U.S. Supreme Court justices — videos increasingly have become public tools in high-stakes cases.
7 minute read

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