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Student Data Mining Is A Black Box, Finds Fordham Law Study

The study, prepared by the Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) found that student data is commercially available, though subjects aren't always aware they're providing information.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Chamber of Commerce Poll Points to Trouble for Many Ballot Proposals

The poll, conducted in late May and early June, showed four amendments with the necessary 60 percent of voter support.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Court of Appeals Revives Teacher Pension Lawsuit

Presiding Judge John Ellington wrote for a panel that included Judge Charlie Bethel and Senior Judge Herbert Phipps in a June 1 decision reversing DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory Adams, who tossed out the teachers' case.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NCAA Sued Over Post-Practice Cardiac Death of Football Player from NJ at Mass. College

Michael Mazza died after a two-hour practice at Mount Ida College in Massachusetts in February 2016, with "probable cardiac dysrhythmia" listed as the cause of death.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Court Turns Away Teacher's Facebook Comments Case Amid 'Grave Concerns' About Free Speech Rights

“This is a case about just how far the First Amendment bends in allowing government to punish its employees for the viewpoints they communicate in theirprivate lives,” Justice Nels Peterson wrote. “I am doubtful that it allowed the punishment imposed here.”
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Skadden's Pat Fitzgerald Takes on UNC Defense in Admissions Suit

Fitzgerald formally joins the court case as Skadden partner Michael Scudder, who had been leading the firm's representation of UNC, leaves for a federal appeals post.
2 minute read

The Recorder

UC Berkeley Appoints Chief Campus Counsel, Months After Former Counsel's Death

After serving in the role as chief campus counsel on an interim basis for nine months following the death of his predecessor Christopher Patti, David Robinson was named to the position permanently on Thursday.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

State Appeals Court Largely Sides With FSU in Weapons Dispute

The long-running lawsuit, filed against Florida State by the Second Amendment advocacy group Florida Carry, has drawn attention mostly because of incorrect firearm information published in a 2015 football “game day guide.”
4 minute read

Law.com

Khan Academy's Free LSAT Prep Program Draws Jeers, Cheers

The highly anticipated program, created in conjunction with the organization that makes the law school entrance exam, is set to go live June 1.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New MSU Top Lawyer Robert Young's Priorities: Resolve Nassar Matters; Reform Legal Services

Corporate Counsel got Young to open up about why he has taken on the formidable challenge of running MSU's embattled legal department.
7 minute read

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