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FSU Among Law Schools to Welcome Displaced Puerto Rican Students

A consortium of five law schools has agreed to work with the University of Puerto Rico to bring in small groups of students.
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Daily Business Review

UF Law Student Wounded in Vegas, Dean Reports

Third-year law student Kristin Babik suffered a collapsed lung and broken ribs.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Boca Raton Boarding School Faces Defamation Suit by Ex-Headmaster

The lawsuit claims the St. Andrew's School misled people into thinking Peter Benedict's resignation was related to a sex abuse scandal.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Women Leaders in Tech Law: Laura Lee Norris, Santa Clara University

Norris, the director of the Entrepreneurs' Law Clinic and Tech Edge J.D. at Santa Clara, is helping expand IP law offerings at both the engineering and business schools.
2 minute read

The Recorder

After UC Berkeley Blocks Dershowitz Speech, Its Law School Steps In

Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky appears to have averted yet another free speech controversy on the Bay Area campus by inviting retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz to speak this month.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Oregon State University v. Superior Court (Sutherland)

C.A. 4th; D071752 The Fourth Appellate District granted a petition for writ of mandate. The court held that the federal Constitution’s full faith…
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

U.S. Justice Department Weighs In on Ga. Campus First Amendment Suit

In tandem with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Georgetown Law School lecture chastising the nation's college campuses for inhibiting free speech, the U.S. Justice Department waded this week into a First Amendment lawsuit against a metro Atlanta community college. o behalf of a Christian evangelical student.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Santarelli and Sons Oil Co, Inc. v. Western Wayne Sch. Dist., PICS Case No. 17-1424 (C.P. Lackawanna Sep. 12, 2017) Nealon, J. (18 pages).

The court declined to dismiss the plaintiff's claim for breach of a requirements contract involving the purchase of fuel oil where the issue of good faith was a question to be resolved by the finder of fact. Plaintiff's allegations of reliance were sufficient to support its promissory estoppel claim.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Borrell v. Bloomsburg Univ. et al, PICS Case No. 17-1446 (3d Cir. Aug. 30, 2017) Hardiman, J. (16 pages).

The district court erred in granting plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in her §1983 action where the record failed to demonstrate that state actors were responsible for her dismissal from a nursing program jointly operated by a private hospital and a public university. The court reversed and remanded for the entry of judgment for defendants.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Levi v. The Regents of the University of California

C.A. 4th; D069526 The Fourth Appellate District reversed in part a judgment. In the published portion of its opinion, the court held that a former state…
3 minute read

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