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Trump Legal Team Fires Back at Plaintiff Seeking to Unravel Trump U Settlement

President Donald Trump, in court papers, has accused a lawyer and nearly two dozen law professors of lodging “inflammatory, gratuitous and untested facts and assertions” in their objections to the $25 million Trump University settlement.
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Daily Business Review

Florida Senator Pitches Plan to Ease Burdensome Student Debt

Meeting with college students and recent graduates dealing with the burden of student debt, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson outlined legislation that would cap rates on federal undergraduate loans at 4 percent and allow the refinancing of older loans at lower rates.
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National Law Journal

Racist Pasts of Boalt Hall and Hastings' Namesakes Haunt Law Schools

Lawyer Serranus Clinton Hastings made his fortune during the California Gold Rush and served as the first chief justice of the state's Supreme Court before giving $100,000—supposedly in gold coins—to establish the University of California's first law school in 1878.
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The Recorder

Racist Pasts of Boalt Hall and Hastings' Namesakes Haunt Law Schools

One man advocated for barring Chinese immigrants; another apparently enjoyed an abhorrent pastime.
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The Recorder

Trump Legal Team Fires Back at Plaintiff Seeking to Unravel Trump U Settlement

President Donald Trump in court papers has accused a lawyer and nearly two dozen law professors of lodging "inflammatory, gratuitous, and untested facts and assertions" in their objections over his $25 million Trump University settlement.
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ministerial Exception Applies to Catholic School Principal, 2nd Circuit Rules

The ex-principal of a Catholic elementary school had not held a religious position but is nonetheless barred by the First Amendment's ministerial exception from bringing a discrimination suit against her former employer, a federal appeals court ruled.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Number of LSAT Test-Takers Surges. Is It a Trump Bump?

The hoped-for law school “Trump Bump” might actually have legs.The number of people who took the Law School Admission Test in June climbed nearly 20 percent over last year—the largest percentage increase for any individual LSAT administration since September 2009. (Legal education observers will remember that the 2010-11 academic year was the high-water mark for national law school enrollment before a steady, six-year decline.)
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The Legal Intelligencer

West Chester Area Sch. Dist. v. A.M., PICS Case No. 17-1057 (Pa. Commw. June 19, 2017) Simpson, J. (24 pages).

Hearing officer correctly denied the school district's motion to enforce a waiver agreement between student's parents and the district because the hearing officer correctly found that he lacked the authority to enforce such agreements. Affirmed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Protz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Bd., PICS Case No. 17-0963 (Pa. June 20, 2017) Wecht, J., Saylor, C. J. (concurring), Baer, J. (dissenting) (27 pages).

Commonwealth court properly held that the general assembly improperly delegated its powers and violated Art. II, §1 when it directed IRE physicians to use the "most recent edition" of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment in determining a claimant's ratings impairment but court erred in remanding the case because §306(a.2) was unconstitutional in its entirety. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Los Angeles Unified School District v. Safety National Casualty Corporation

C.A. 2nd; B275597 The Second Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that the possibility of conflicting rulings in a case involving multiple…
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