A judge has denied a motion for class certification by a group of Thomas Jefferson School of Law graduates who claimed they were tricked into attending the school by misleading…
The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar hasn’t received much in the way of a response to its latest proposed changes in the law school accreditation…
In a case that pits First Amendment rights of young Americans to display pride in their country against the power of high school administrators to take reasonable measures to promote…
The fate of Michigan’s voter referendum banning affirmative action likely depends on Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who sought to distinguish cases cited by a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties…
An ABA committee has decided to ask the governing council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to press for the universal release to law schools…
On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will return from its summer recess to begin October Term 2013. Before the Supreme Court adjourned at the end of June, it granted…
The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary is bringing race-based admissions back before the justices. Photo courtesy of By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).
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An ABA task force is recommending wholesale changes in the financing of legal education, the elimination of some law school accreditation standards, and it is pushing for more innovation and…
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.
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