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The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyers Could See Increase in Work After Trump Administration Issues New Title IX Guidance

The Department of Education's announcement Sept. 22 that it is rescinding Title IX guidance on sexual misconduct issued by the Obama administration left schools scrambling for answers.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Roybal v. Toppenish School District

9th Cir.; 15-35541 The court of appeals reversed in part a judgment, and dismissed in part an appeal. The court that a school district’s purported…
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Coach Not Liable for Student Football Player's Brain Injury

A federal appeals court has ruled in the case of a student-football player who suffered a traumatic brain injury during practice that while there was evidence of state-created danger, the coach did not violate the student's constitutional rights.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Court: Sexually Inappropriate Teacher's Reinstatement Violated Public Policy

An arbitration award that reinstated a teacher accused of making repeated sexually explicit comments toward his female co-worker violated the public policy against sexual harassment and cannot be enforced, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

California Univ. of Pa. v. Schackner et al, PICS Case No. 17-1400 (Pa. Commw. Aug. 22, 2017) Hearthway, J. (21 pages).

While the defendant university's inquiry into the collapse of an on-campus garage was ancillary to its public safety services and thus not a noncriminal investigation under Section 708(b)(17) of the Right-to-Know Law, the university was entitled to an in-camera review of certain documents that might be exempt from the law under attorney-client privilege. The court affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

A Whistleblower Takes On Charlotte School of Law

Will a former Charlotte Law professor's claims finally bring change to the legal education industry?
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

State Supreme Court Declines to Hear Charter School Battle

The Florida Supreme Court refused to hear a case that challenged the constitutionality of a law that gives power to the State Board of Education in the approval of charter schools.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Kaplan Keeps Fort Lauderdale HQ After Extending Cypress Creek Lease

The parent company of Kaplan University take sup 193,000 square feet in two buildings.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

'Really Hard and Intense:' Departing Northwestern Law Dean Says of Competition Among Top Schools

Daniel Rodriguez will step down as dean of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law at the end of the academic year after more than six years, the school announced Tuesday.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Foster v. Fordham University and Caldwell & Walsh Building Construction, Inc.

Injury Claim under Labor Law Proceeded; Triable Issues Over Hazardous Conditions
2 minute read

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