The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Oct. 10 in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin over the issue of whether colleges and universities may continue…
Drum major Robert Champion took part in the Florida A&M marching band’s halftime performance on Nov. 19, 2011, and died later that evening from massive injuries sustained while being subjected to a brutal hazing ritual. Photo by The Tampa Tribune/Joseph Brown III.
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A statue of George Washington stands in front of the University of Texas bell tower and administration building in Austin. Photo by AP Photo/Robert E. Klein.
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After complaints, including from a parent who said her daughter suffered “welts, blisters and bruises” from a male administrator’s paddle, a north Texas school board relaxed its rules on corporal…
A Texas state judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing a small town school district from enforcing a ban on religious displays at high school football games and other…
After helping determine resolve victim compensation claims for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the Virginia Tech massacre, among…
A school district in Cranston, R.I., has decided to ban father-daughter and mother-son activities because of fears they are illegal under gender discrimination law.
An assistant anthropology professor at American University has ignited new debate about the parameters of breastfeeding law and policy by bringing her baby to the first day of class when…
Investigative journalist Bill Lichtenstein says he was perplexed when his then-5-year-old daughter, Rose, began throwing violent tantrums at home about six years ago.
After more than a decade on the job, the general counsel of Louisiana State University system resigned Thursday from his $275,000-a-year position, effective Friday, in what is apparently the latest…
Hulett “Bucky” Askew, the ABA’s former consultant on legal education, has been elected to the board of trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Updated: A federal judge in Florida ruled this week that students in state-supported colleges and universities can’t be charged out-of-state tuition just because their parents are in the country illegally.
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