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10 Most Recent Headlines
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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Resources: Facing the Crisis Challenge
Emergencies can now come to campus in a variety of ways and at all times. Before the next one strikes campus, consider, “Campus Crisis Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Prevention, Response and Recovery.”
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Key Case: Settling the Sample Dispute
He had been doing university research on cancer. To pursue his studies, he collected thousands of tissue samples from patients. Then he decided to leave Washington University (MO) and move his project to Northwestern University (IL) in 2003. Of course, he planned to take his tissue samples with him. Not so fast said his old school. It took a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year to finally determine who controlled the tissues and where they belonged. Washington University? Northwestern? The researcher? The patients?
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Cases Noted: The Jello Lawsuit
In 2005, a New York University student filed a claim against NYU and the school food service provider. The plaintiff was a junior when he and his residence hall floor organized a party they called “Beach Bash.” The event featured a children’s pool filled with gelatin. The students wrestled in the Jell-o. But one of the partygoers broke his hip in the pool.
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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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