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Opinion: Punishment Fit the Crime? Laying Down the Law: Handling Harassment Cases Noted: Demanding Resources or a Lawsuit Liability Tip: Computer Users Need Basic Security Just Ask: reference letter risks Follow-up: Judgement in Dorm Fire Deaths Focus On… GLBT Rights Demonstrations Cross Examination: A Tale of Two Orders Cases of the Month: Curbing False ID Use Opinion: Scared of the Big Judgments?
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Opinion: Reject—again—separate but equal
Only a few years after the two University of Michigan U.S. Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action, colleges and universities are again left to wonder, what is legal and what will the future bring?
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Liability Tip: Protecting Directors and Officers
Leaders get sued. It’s a fact of litigation life that those in key leadership positions, particularly in non-profit institutions and agencies, face an increased risk today of being named a defendant in a legal action aimed at an organization. Due to sovereign immunity and qualified immunity protections in public higher education, the risks for institution officers and directors is highest in some private college and university settings, and for not-for-profit corporations operated in support of a school.
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Just Ask: State Support for Va. Tech Victims?
Q. Does the state have an obligation to offer financial support to the students killed or injured in the Spring 2007 Virginia Tech shooting tragedy? Do they deserve less support than the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, some ask?
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Liability Tip: Responding to Overseas Crisis With a growing number of student traveling overseas each year for an international academic experience, the likelihood of an international crisis involving students increases.
Cross Examination: Press Still Free Decades Later
The 1983 student burglary and theft charges had been printed in the Cornell University student newspaper but when an Internet search found the old article in 2007, the accused student sued..
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