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African American Student Won't Have to Cut His Dreadlocks After Akin Gump Pro Bono Win

A pro bono team from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld won a preliminary injunction that stops a school district from enforcing a hair-length policy that would have forced two African American students to cut their dreadlocks, or face punishment.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How Do We Narrow the Growing Education Divide in a Pandemic?

For too many years, Pennsylvania has woefully underfunded public education. Only six states cover a smaller share of total K-12 education costs than ours. The state also distributes its funds inequitably.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers, Legal Scholars Weigh In on Emory Law Professor's Discrimination Lawsuit Over Classroom Slur

Lawyers and law professors say the context of both Emory law professor Paul Zwier's use of a racial epithet and the former interim law school dean's letters to the community criticizing him, will likely be key factors in the case if it should go to trial.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Jury's $60M Verdict in 'Agonizing' High School Student Burn Case Upheld

As a chemistry teacher at Manhattan's Beacon High School "poured methanol from a gallon jug" into dishes containing nitrates, "a giant fireball erupted ... and engulfed" the student, and he burned for at least a minute, wrote the judge.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Tinkering With 'Tinker': 3d Cir. School Districts May No Longer Discipline Students for Certain Off-Campus Speech

In rejecting the approach of other circuits, the majority in 'B.L. by Levy' opined that some decisions which deployed 'Tinker' to uphold punishment of offensive off-campus speech may have encompassed too much non-harmful speech.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

College Compliance With Title IX: Will You Be Ready by Aug. 14?

As colleges were scrambling to adjust to the new normal of virtual learning—and all of the challenges that brought—the Department of Education dropped another bombshell May 6 with the issuance of its final rule, requiring that schools be compliant by Aug. 14.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Temple University Pushes Back Against Class Action Demanding Tuition Refunds

Plaintiffs are raising breach-of-contract and unjust enrichment claims over the campus closures, but, in its motion to dismiss, Temple argued that there was never a contract guaranteeing in-person-only education.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Supreme Court's Recent Balance Between Public Access and Student Privacy

For the second time in five years, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a major opinion relating to the right to privacy in Pennsylvania schools.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Joins States Suing Secretary DeVos Over Student-Borrower Loan Defense Repeal

The suit contends that Trump administration Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has replaced an Obama-era rule with one that "drastically" limits repayment defenses for borrowers who find themselves saddled with large amounts of debt after a for-profit school has deceived them.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Big Law Rushed to Sue Over ICE's Policy for International Students During COVID. Now Trump Officials Are Dropping It.

Big Law firms, including Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Crowell & Moring, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, had challenged the policy in court.
3 minute read

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