Corrected: A plaintiff in the landmark school speech case, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, will be driving to 18 states in an RV to talk to students…
It appears to be entirely legal. But a new social media surveillance program tracking Internet posts by public school students has raised some hackles.
An Ohio judge abused his discretion by denying a public defender to a college student whose parents refused to pay for an attorney to represent her in a criminal case,…
A federal appeals court has upheld a $1 million bias award on behalf of three black or biracial employees of Alabama State University who claim their former superior, who is…
Students at public colleges in North Carolina generally have the right to a lawyer in campus disciplinary proceedings under a new law signed by the governor on Friday.
Donald Trump and the former Trump University are facing a $40 million suit that claims students hoping to learn real-estate techniques paid for pricey courses that didn’t live up to…
The for-profit Career Education Corp. agreed on Monday to a $10 million settlement, with $9.25 million to go to former students and $1 million in fees to settle charges it…
A federal appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a case in which a South Korean university sought tens of millions of dollars in tort damages from Yale University after…
Updated: Eleven former students at Brooklyn Poly Prep claim in a lawsuit (PDF) that O’Melveny & Myers misled courts about the school’s investigation of sexual abuse by former football…
A new California law allows transgender students in public schools to compete in sex-segregated sports and use facilities such as restrooms and locker rooms based on their gender identity.
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has tentatively approved three more chapters of proposed amendments to the law-school accreditation standards.
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for middle school students in a Pennsylvania school district to show their support for breast-cancer awareness by wearing “I (heart) boobies” bracelets.
The current system for financing a law school education, which drives up tuition costs and student debt, is “deeply flawed” and in need of a “serious re-engineering,” an ABA task…
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