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Daily Business Review

Superintendents Say Money May Not Cover Resource Officers

A new report from Florida's school superintendents warns that despite a nearly $100 million increase in funding, there may not be enough money to post an armed school resource officer at each school in the state.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Gov. Scott Signs 8 Bills as Agencies Pay Millions in Deaths, Injuries

Gov. Rick Scott signed eight bills last week that will lead to paying millions of dollars to resolve cases in which state or local government agencies played a role in people dying or getting injured.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Savannah Law School Closure Yields Student Class Action

"Earlier today, we filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the students at Savannah Law School and are actively seeking justice on their behalf,” Stephen Lowry of Harris Lowry Manton said. “We hope to help these students secure an adequate recovery in light of this devastating turn of events."
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The 'Heckler's Veto' v. The First Amendment

When controversial speakers appear on campus, they frequently trigger violent and destructive demonstrations, sometimes leading to physical injuries and inevitable police arrests. The cost of securing the site from this violence poses an enormous problem for university officials.
7 minute read

The Recorder

In UCLA Stabbing Case, California's High Court Finds Universities Have Duty to Protect Students

The ruling that comes in the wake of a recent wave of school campus violence weighs in on when universities can be held liable for student-on-student violence.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Leaders Say Their Companies Can Be Change Agents for Diversity

"We need general broader power structures to change," said Marie Oh Huber, senior vice president and general counsel at eBay. "I feel like those of us who have that voice, that ability, that power, we need to push for that change."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Hearsay Evidence OK in Fired NYC Schoolteacher's Arb Hearing, Court Says

A unanimous Appellate Division, First Department, panel said hearsay evidence “may be the basis of an administrative determination.”
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What's the GC's Role in Fighting Faculty-Student Sex Harassment in Higher Ed?

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, colleges and universities are re-evaluating faculty-student relationships, and whether to ban them outright—leading the institutions' top lawyers to play a significant role in drafting policy governing the issue.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Clearview Research Poll: Voters Back School-Board Term Limits

A proposed constitutional amendment that would impose eight-year term limits on members of county school boards would pass comfortably if it goes on the November ballot, according to a new poll.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

BAR REPORT - Program to provide an update on violence against women on college campuses

Event to take place on Tuesday, March 13
2 minute read

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