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Pinkerton v. US Dep't of Educ.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
To establish liability in an employment discrimination action under the ADA, the plaintiff must show that disability played a motivating role in the...

Engel v. Rapid City Sch. Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against a school district alleging sex discrimination under Title VII and South Dakota law, based on a hostile work environment created...

In re: Lewis

Bankruptcy Law, Education Law
In a bankruptcy case involving the dischargeability of a debtor's student loan obligation to the government, a judgment for the U.S. Department of...

Stotter v. Univ. of Texas at San Antonio

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a civil rights case involving the termination of an employment contract of a tenured professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the...

Univ. of Pittsburgh v. US

Education Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
In an action against the government arising from a tax refund dispute between the University of Pittsburgh and the IRS, summary judgment in favor of...

Morrison v. Bd. of Educ. of Boyd County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In an action brought against a board of education by Christian student at a county high school claiming that speech codes prevented students in the...

Peterson v. Baker

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving a hostile encounter between a teacher and her student where the teacher allegedly grabbed and squeezed the student's neck, summary...

Hester v. DC

Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law
In case involving then-17-year-old D.C. public school student who was convicted in Maryland with whom defendant DC agreed to provide special education...

Westchester Day Sch. v. Village of Mamaroneck

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Judgment ordering defendant-village to issue a permit to plaintiff to proceed with the expansion of its day school facilities is affirmed primarily as...

Beth Medrash Eeyun Hatalmud v. Spellings

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Education Law, Government Law
In case involving termination of plaintiff educational institution's eligibility to participate in Pell Grant program, summary judgment for plaintiff...