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The Legal Intelligencer

In IEP Dispute, District Off the Hook for Girl's Private Tuition

A federal judge has ruled that Downingtown Area School District does not have to pay for the private-school tuition of a former student who left the district over dissatisfaction with her individualized education plan.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Courts, Law School Announce Hurricane Closures

State courts in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties and the St. Thomas University law school announce closures as Hurricane Irma barrels toward the region.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Post-Harvey, Houston Law Schools Reopen, With Challenges

The three campuses—the University of Houston Law Center, South Texas College of Law Houston and Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law—all escaped serious damage and flooding, though some law faculty, staff and students have lost homes, cars and other property.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

University of Florida GC in Talks With Richard Spencer Over On-Campus Speech

The white nationalist leader had been scheduled to speak at the university, but was initially rebuffed after the crowd at a similar speech in Charlottesville turned violent.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Confederate Descendants Won the Case but Lost the Name in Microcosm of Today's Debate

Financial resolution ends court battle between Vanderbilt University and United Daughters of the Confederacy of Tennessee.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Original Steptoe Steps in to Advise 16 Different Schools

In a unique and somewhat unusual arrangement, 16 colleges across the U.S. have all agreed that just one law firm—West Virginia-based Steptoe & Johnson PLLC—will provide legal services to their institutions. Just don't confuse the firm with its Washington, D.C.-based doppelgänger.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

To Be a Fly on the Wall in a Trump-Focused Con Law Class

Trump's presidency has raised a number of tricky constitutional issues, from the more obvious ones of self-pardons to the more esoteric ones of understanding the Emoluments Clause and the 25th Amendment. Many of us at the bar studied law before Nixon's threatened impeachment or Clinton's impeachment but acquittal, and we may need refreshers on the intricacies of Article II Section 4.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Princeton GC Ramona Romero Honed Skills at USDA, DuPont

Ramona Romero, who joined Princeton University as its general counsel in 2014, was anything but a novice at running a legal department.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Chiefs at GE, Procter & Gamble Elected as Fellows to Governance College

Alex Dimitrief and Deborah Majoras have been named to the American College of Governance Counsel, a group that seeks a better understanding and broader adoption of best governance practices in business.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Discovery Charter Sch. v. Sch. Dist. of Phila., PICS Case No. 17-1296 (Pa. Aug. 8, 2017) Baer, J. (30 pages).

Commonwealth Court erred in creating amendment procedure for charter school charter where neither amendment nor appeal of amendment denial were explicitly authorized by the Charter School Law. Order of the commonwealth court vacated.
4 minute read

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