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Lawsuit: Oregon School District Failed to Investigate Teacher

Sep 2 2020 // A former student from Aloha High School is suing the Beaverton School District after a teacher was convicted of sending her sexually explicit photos and videos of himself.The suit, which asks for more than $2 million in...

University of Alabama COVID Cases Top 1K in First 2 Weeks of School

Sep 1 2020 // The University of Alabama reported Friday that an additional 481 students have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to more than 1,000 infections since students returned to campus for the fall.The University of...

Brown & Brown Cancels Deal After Ohio Agency Exec Pleads Guilty in College Scam

Aug 27 2020 // Daytona Beach, Florida-based insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. has terminated its previously announced agreement to purchase the assets of HAUSER, an insurance and investment firm headquartered in Cincinnati,...

University of Alabama Reports More than 500 COVID Cases, City Closes Bars

Aug 27 2020 // The University of Alabama has recorded 531 cases of COVID-19 on campus since the fall semester began last week, according to numbers the university system released Tuesday as officials try to clamp down on student parties,...

New COVID Clusters Appear at One North Carolina University

Aug 26 2020 // East Carolina University reported new COVID-19 clusters at two more dormitories on Monday, two days before the school transitions to online instructions.The school issued an alert saying six positive cases had been...

Former Washington State Student Sues School District Over Mass Shooting

Aug 26 2020 // A former student at a high school in Washington state who survived a school shooting is suing the district for what she claims was a preventable attack.The mass shooting killed four students and the gunman in 2014. Carmen...

Former Oregon School District Student Sues, Says Principal Molested Him

Aug 25 2020 // A former student of the Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the district and former Deep Creek Elementary School principal Jeff Hays, saying he was sexually abused by Hays.The...

North Carolina Universities Move Classes Online After Campus Virus Outbreaks

Aug 24 2020 // East Carolina University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte are moving courses online in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the universities announced Sunday.ECU will move undergraduate courses online for the...

University Insured Chinese Student Tuition Revenue Against Virus. Then COVID-19 Hit.

Aug 17 2020 // After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his school: Chinese graduate students.So, in 2017,...

Justice Department Alleges Yale Illegally Discriminates Against Asians, Whites

Aug 14 2020 // The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants in its undergraduate admissions process in violation of U.S. civil rights law.The...

Appeals Court: Florida Public School Can’t Punish Student for Gender Nonconformity

Aug 14 2020 // xA Florida school district was wrong when it forced a transgender high school student to either use the girls bathroom or a single-stall gender neutral bathroom, a federal appeals court ruled.The ruling issued Aug. 7 sides...

University of North Carolina Workers Complain of Unsafe Working Conditions in Lawsuit

Aug 14 2020 // Campus workers in the University of North Carolina system have filed a lawsuit saying working conditions are unsafe and that workers are reporting for work with inadequate protective equipment amid the COVID-19...

More Than 900 Students, Staff Quarantined by Georgia School District

Aug 13 2020 // A Georgia school district has quarantined more than 900 students and staff members because of possible exposure to the coronavirus and will temporarily shut down one of its hardest-hit high schools, officials said...

Mother of University of Iowa Student Who Died in Freezing Temps Sues

Aug 10 2020 // The mother of an 18-year-old University of Iowa student who froze to death in January 2019 is suing the school for negligence.Michael Belz, of Cedar Rapids, was caught outside of his residence hall on the night of Jan. 29,...

Family of Teen Who Died at Washington University Fraternity Files Lawsuit

Aug 10 2020 // In his first semester at Washington State University, Sam Martinez witnessed or took part in several activities that his family says were a pattern of hazing at Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), the fraternity he hoped to...

Lawsuit Accuses Utah State University of Discrimination in Student Expulsion

Aug 10 2020 // A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Utah State University of unlawfully discriminating against and expelling a student with Down syndrome during her first term.Emily Arthur was in the Aggies Elevated program which...

Family of Teen Who Died at Washington University Fraternity Files Lawsuit

Aug 3 2020 // In his first semester at Washington State University, Sam Martinez witnessed or took part in several activities that his family says was a pattern of hazing at Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), the fraternity he hoped to join.Pledges...

Lawsuit Accuses Utah State University of Discrimination in Student Expulsion

Aug 3 2020 // A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Utah State University of unlawfully discriminating against and expelling a student with Down syndrome during her first term.Emily Arthur was in the Aggies Elevated program which...

U.S. Appeals Court Says Jury Should Decide Kent State Ex-Player’s Lawsuit

Jul 27 2020 // A federal appeals court has ruled that a jury should decide on a former university softball player’s charge that her coach violated her First Amendment rights after a sexual assault on campus in Ohio.A three-judge...

Lawsuit Claims UT-Austin Unfairly Denied Admission to White Students

Jul 24 2020 // A national organization has filed a lawsuit against the University of Texas at Austin on behalf of two white students who were denied admission, marking the third time the school has been sued by this group over an...