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Trump Legal Team Fires Back at Plaintiff Seeking to Unravel Trump U Settlement

President Donald Trump in court papers has accused a lawyer and nearly two dozen law professors of lodging "inflammatory, gratuitous, and untested facts and assertions" in their objections over his $25 million Trump University settlement.
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The Legal Intelligencer

West Chester Area Sch. Dist. v. A.M., PICS Case No. 17-1057 (Pa. Commw. June 19, 2017) Simpson, J. (24 pages).

Hearing officer correctly denied the school district's motion to enforce a waiver agreement between student's parents and the district because the hearing officer correctly found that he lacked the authority to enforce such agreements. Affirmed.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Number of LSAT Test-Takers Surges. Is It a Trump Bump?

The hoped-for law school “Trump Bump” might actually have legs.The number of people who took the Law School Admission Test in June climbed nearly 20 percent over last year—the largest percentage increase for any individual LSAT administration since September 2009. (Legal education observers will remember that the 2010-11 academic year was the high-water mark for national law school enrollment before a steady, six-year decline.)
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Daily Business Review

Court Fight Looms for Controversial New Education Law

The Broward County School Board voted to move ahead with legal action against a sweeping new education law, an initial step toward a court clash over one of the legislative session's most controversial bills.
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New York Law Journal

Matter of Wilson v. The Dept. of Educ. of the City of N.Y.

Respondent's Actions Make Claims 'Ring Hollow;' Termination Without Hearing Arbitrary
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National Law Journal

Student Loan Skirmish Becomes War as 19 AGs Sue DeVos

A group of 19 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday to stop the Trump administration's rollback of an Obama-era regulation intended to protect student loan borrowers.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Trauma and School Children: Can the Law Empower These Students?

M.M. grew up in an inner-city neighborhood in Boston. While in utero, M.M. experienced fetal distress while exposed to crack cocaine. As an adolescent, his mother was repeatedly incarcerated due to drug use. Because M.M. never knew his father, he ­transitioned in and out of foster homes, and at times, found himself homeless.
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The Recorder

Window Rock Unified School District v. Reeves

9th Cir.; 13-16259 The court of appeals reversed a judgment. The court held that tribal courts had jurisdiction over employment disputes involving Arizona…
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New York Law Journal

It's a Stretch, But Law Students Could Get Subsidized Loans Again

Subsidized government loans for graduate students became a casualty of the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, but law school proponents are pushing to resurrect them with the help of sympathetic lawmakers.
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The Recorder

Sato v. Orange County Department of Education

9th Cir.; 15-56402 The court of appeals affirmed a district court judgment. The court held that the passage of Assembly Bill 97 did not deprive California…
5 minute read

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