Carnegie Mellon prof sues Pittsburgh over hearing loss
A university professor says in a federal lawsuit against the Pittsburgh police that her hearing was damaged when officers used a giant speaker to disperse protesters during the…
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Defendant’s social networking trail makes Rutgers case unique
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Authors Guild sues universities over online books
Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Sept. 12, seeking to stop…
Family of slain Yale student sues university
The family of a Yale University graduate student killed in a research lab just days before she had planned to get married in 2009 sued the Ivy League…
Student’s suit says Webster U. dumped him for lacking empathy
A former Webster University student who was studying to be a family counselor says in a lawsuit that he was dismissed from a master's degree program after it…
Justice Dept. accuses college of breaking law
The Obama administration and four states are accusing a private for-profit college corporation of illegally paying recruiters to enroll students, the latest action in an examination of the…
Ministry, church sue each other over sale of online university
A Louisville-based ministry and a large Arizona church are suing each other over the disputed sale of an unaccredited online university last year, each accusing the other of…
For-profit college lobbying group sues Obama administration over regulations
More than a month after the Obama administration issued weaker-than-expected regulations aimed at reining in abuses at some for-profit colleges, a trade association for the industry filed a…
Briefings sent to court back U. of I. in records dispute
The U.S. Department of Justice and a group of higher education organizations each filed briefs in federal court Wednesday arguing that the University of Illinois was prohibited by…
Campus diversity challenges may send affirmative action back to high court
The debate over racial preferences in higher education admissions could be headed back to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Washington Times reports.