The community college used a recruiting company to lure South American students into factory jobs. A federal lawsuit filed by nearly a dozen South American students, notably two from Brazil and nine from Chile, in the northern district of Iowa, named Western Iowa Tech Community College and the Sioux City recruiting firm J&L, which the … Read more
Chemeketa Community College and a pro-life student group recently agreed to resolve a free speech lawsuit. Chemeketa Community College in Oregon recently agreed to pay $ 25,000 to settle a federal lawsuit with a pro-life student group. The student group sued the school on allegations that the college had “restricted freedom of speech to a … Read more
The fight over environmental liability has returned to the US Supreme Court. In its first standstill in 2011, the Connecticut Court v American Electric Power defeated the board on finding that federal clean air law superseded federal common law damages claims for damage caused by climate change. Noting the fragility of federal customary law in … Read more
Although it controls 120 individual trusts, more than half of its assets are destined for Girard College, the 42-acre walled free boarding school a few blocks north of Center City in north Philadelphia. School enrollment, which is nearing 1,000 at its current peak, was dropped to about 300 a decade ago and has remained at … Read more
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine is preparing for another round of protests in the capital next week, with supporters of President Trump expected to travel to Washington to oppose Congress’ confirmation of Joe Biden’s electoral college victory in the Protest 2020 presidential election. “My fear is high. My preparation is even more intense,” … Read more
The Supreme Court ruled earlier today to hear NCAA v Alston, a case that questions the legality of the NCAA rules that exclude most compensation for college athletes: The Supreme Court will hear groundbreaking antitrust proceedings against the NCAA that could improve the business model for college sports by allowing colleges to compensate student athletes. … Read more
Boston College students and alumni have been pushing the Roman Catholic institution to move away from fossil fuels for nearly a decade. On Tuesday they took their fight to the legal arena. A group of Boston College alumni, politicians, and academics filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Attorney General, arguing that the Boston College trustees … Read more