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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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Cross Examination: Parents, Watch Your Step!
What duty does a college or university have to protect a parent visiting their son’s or daughter’s school? What happens if mom or dad gets hurt on campus? Some lessons on this might be learned from recent court decisions in Indiana and Maryland.
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Cases Noted: Suing for Service Time
The student was a Mormon. His religion expected him to spend two years on mission when he turned 19. When he applied for a deferral of his state scholarship to serve as a missionary, it was denied.
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Resources: In the Wake of Virginia Tech
Campus and higher education systems around the country responded differently this year to the losses at Virginia Tech. The University of North Carolina system is the latest to make recommendations on possible ways to improve campus and student safety.
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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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