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GC Recruitment Chugging Along in Academia: UVM Latest to Hire New Legal Boss

Georgia Tech and Wayne State University also have named new GCs.
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Daily Business Review

Student Loan Relief Will Cost Billions, Favor Top Earners

Loan forgiveness has become a tricky issue for the White House, as it tries to appeal to younger voters ahead of the midterms, while also trying to show Democrats as good stewards of the economy.
3 minute read

Law.com

Federal Judge Declines to Consolidate COVID-19 Refund Class Actions Against University

"Discovery in the two cases is likely to focus on different facts, and trial and summary judgment are likely to raise differing legal issues," stated U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich of the District of Arizona. "Thus, the Court finds that the cases do not involve common issues of law and fact that would warrant consolidation."
3 minute read

Law.com

Utah Court Blocks Law Banning Transgender Girls From Participating on Girls' Sports Teams

The Salt Lake County court held that the new law would likely violate the equality guarantees of the Utah Constitution by singling out transgender girls and barring them from competing on girls' teams regardless of their individual circumstances.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

What's Next In the Legal Challenges to Gov. DeSantis's Signature 'Stop WOKE Act'

"I have clients on both sides of the question," said David Miller, a past chair of the City, County, and Local Government Law Section of the Florida Bar. "The best advice I can give my employers is to sit back and let the dust settle."
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Title IX—Required Reading for Students Entering College

Title IX is a federal law that protects people from sex discrimination in educational programs and activities at colleges and universities that receive federal financial assistance. Among others, sexual assault is a form of discrimination prohibited by Title IX.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Elite Universities' Early Bid to Knock Out Financial Aid Antitrust Suit Falls Flat

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago denied a bid by 17 elite private universities to knock out claims they colluded in ways that held down the amount of need-based aid going to undergraduates.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Challenge Immunity of Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Student

"He had the opportunity to decontaminate Keturah Hall and chose not to do it," argued appellant attorney Thomas "Woody" Gatewood Sampson II. "He can be found liable for negligent performance of that ministerial duty."
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Is There a Place for Transgender Athletes Under Title IX?

Title IX has a long history of defining male and female participation in sports. Since Title IX's enactment, athletes have relied on this law to rid academic institutions of discriminatory practices in athletics. In recent years, transgender persons are also hopeful that Title IX will guarantee them increased access and opportunities in sports.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Disrobing Student Dress Codes—A Freedom of Expression Analysis

Because clothing is an expression of oneself, and because students do not shed their expressive rights at the schoolhouse gate, public schools must examine their student dress codes to be cognizant of those rights of expression and the liability of inconsistent and discriminatory enforcement.
8 minute read

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