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National Law Journal

NLRB Top Counsel Sides With College Players as Employees, But Does It Matter?

Richard Griffin, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, declared in a memo released this week that athletes at private universities fit the definition of employee under federal labor law; but it may not matter in the new Trump administration.
9 minute read

The Recorder

San Jose Unified School District v. Santa Clara County Office of Education (Rocketship Education)

By | January 25, 2017
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Showdown Over Law Schools' Bar Pass Standard Set for Feb. 6

The American Bar Association is pushing forward with a bid to strengthen its bar passage requirement for law schools over fresh objections from nearly half the nation's law deans.
12 minute read

Litigation Daily

The Real Killers on Capitol Hill? Former Law School Profs

Ex-prosecutors can be scary, but there's no one like a former law professor to hold someone's feet to the fire. Just ask Betsy DeVos.
19 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Moeck v. Pleasant Valley Sch. Dist., PICS Case No. 17-0071 (3d Cir. Dec. 23, 2016) Shwartz, C.J. (11 pages).

By | January 20, 2017
Rule 11 sanctions were properly denied where the trial court found that plaintiffs' pleadings had a factual basis and were not "patently unmeritorious or frivolous." Order of the district court affirmed.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Court Upholds Constitutionality of Charter School Appeal Law

In a dispute stemming from a proposal to add a charter school in Palm Beach County, an appeals court upheld the constitutionality of a law that allows the State Board of Education to overturn local denials of charter-school applications.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Negotiations to Keep Charlotte Law School Afloat Collapse

The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday said that the school has walked away from a tentative deal that would have allowed its roughly 700 students to continue attending classes.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Justices Turn Down School Voucher Challenge

The Florida Supreme Court rejects a constitutional challenge to a law paying for thousands of low-income students to attend private schools.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Is Doomsday Imminent for Charlotte Law School?

After the troubled law school's delay in starting the spring semester, its chances for survival are slim, says an education expert.
13 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pocono Mtn. Sch. Dist. v. Pennsylvania Dept. of Educ., PICS Case No. 17-0037 (Pa. Dec. 28, 2016) Donohue, J.; Baer, J., (dissenting) (32 pages).

By | January 13, 2017
The Department of Education could only withhold funds equaling a charter school's PSERS contribution from the chartering school district if the charter school remained in operation at the time of withholding, since the Charter School Law further absolved the school district from any outstanding obligations of a closed charter school and delinquent PSERS contributions constituted an outstanding obligation or liability. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
6 minute read

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