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National Law Journal

Ex-Law Student Sues School Over Plagiarism Allegations

A Southern Illinois University School of Law former student claims she was duped into accepting a punishment that resulted in her dismissal a semester before graduating.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Expulsion of Student From Doctoral Program Is Upheld

The expulsion of a political science student from a doctoral-track degree program at the State University of New York was justified by her lack of communication skills with her professors and peers, an appeals court ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Teacher Could Avoid Firing Over Transgender Remarks

A state administrative law judge said a Southwest Florida high-school teacher should be disciplined, but not fired, for making negative comments about transgender people.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Expulsion of Student From Doctoral Program Is Upheld

The expulsion of a political science student from a doctoral-track degree program at the State University of New York was justified by her lack of communication skills with her professors and peers, an appeals court ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Fulton Judge Orders In-State Tuition for Immigrants

The Georgia university system must allow immigrants to pay in-state tuition if they've been granted temporary permission by the federal government to stay in the U.S.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Teacher Seniority Is Not the Root of All Evil

Response to a previous op-ed that argued in favor of setting aside seniority and tenure laws governing the order of teacher layoffs.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Directs State to Release Aid to Struggling Schools

A Supreme Court judge has ruled that 19 public schools should receive state aid for which they qualified as "persistently struggling" institutions, even though nine are no longer on the Education Department's academic warning list.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

NLRB Finds Northwestern Football Player Social Media Policy Fumbles

Student athlete is to college, as employee is to employer? On review, perhaps that analogy would fall into the SAT gray zone, to be debated hotly among rising high school seniors and then promptly forgotten once early acceptances to college begin to roll in. However, a number of recent decisions and advice memoranda indicate the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has directed its attention to colleges and universities, and is currently re-evaluating how student athletes enrolled at those institutions fall under the NLRB's purview, if at all. This article discusses recent NLRB decisions and provides recommendations for how to draft social media policies that will survive NLRB scrutiny.
16 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Maliandi v. Montclair State Univ.

By | December 29, 2016
A State University Was the "Alter Ego" of the State for Purposes of Eleventh Amendment Immunity from FMLA and State Law Discrimination Claim
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Montclair University Found Immune From Suit as Arm of State

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that Montclair State University is an arm of the state of New Jersey, and is therefore immune under the Eleventh Amendment from liability for an employee's discrimination suit.
6 minute read

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