all - Opinion Summaries

Barrow v. Greenville Indep. Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment to a school district on a teacher's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and Title VII disparate impact claims is affirmed where: 1) the district...

Taus v. Loftus

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In a tort and invasion of privacy case brought by the unnamed subject in a scholarly article, which described her apparent recovery of a...

Brown v. Simmons

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case alleging that defendant-superintendent of schools infringed teacher's procedural due process rights by denying him a name-clearing hearing...

Barrows v. Wiley

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit alleging violation of due process after a university placed a vice chancellor on unpaid administrative leave, summary...

Chauffeur's Training Sch., Inc v. Spellings

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Education Law
In case involving federal student loan programs, ruling that defendant department was authorized to determine the liability of plaintiff school to...

Brandt v. Bd. of Educ. of City of Chicago

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a class action suit brought on behalf of 24 eighth graders at a public school after they were disciplined for conducting a protest that they claim...

Nerenberg v. Dep't of Educ.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision finding that claimant was disqualified from receipt of unemployment benefits is affirmed as the court rejects an argument that claimant's...

Murray v. Chicago Youth Ctr.

Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit arising from a boy who was rendered a quadriplegic after an accident involving a mini-trampoline used on school property, summary judgement...

Williams v. Board of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Ga.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law, Sports Law
In case involving a gang rape of a college student by members of the football and basketball team, which conduct also constitutes sexual harassment...