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McGarry v. University of San Diego

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In suit for defamation, based on statements made by university officials to reporters and to parents, after plantiff was terminated as head football...

Educational Credit Mgmt. Corp. v. Mosley

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Education Law
Decision affirming the bankruptcy court's order discharging defendant's student loan debt on the basis of undue hardship is affirmed over claims that...

Gilbert v. Des Moines Area Cmty. College

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought against a community college by a former provost raising claims of racial discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title...

King v. E. St. Louis Sch. Dist. 189

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that school district officials had violated a student's rights under the Due Process Clause of the...

Lowery v. Euverard

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Sports Law
In a suit alleging that plaintiffs' First Amendment rights were violated after they were dismissed from a high school football team, denial of summary...

D'Angelo v. School Bd. of Polk County, Fla.

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where plaintiff high school principal alleges that defendant school board violated the First Amendment when it terminated him in retaliation...

Boim v. Fulton County Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In school speech case involving suspension of a female high school student who wrote a narrative "dream" involving shooting a teacher, summary...

Lane v. Simon

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Media Law
In a suit by former editors of a daily newspaper affiliated with Kansas State University against school administrators alleging that the removal of...

Smith v. Microskills San Diego L.P.

Banking Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Education Law
Denial of defendant school's petition to arbitrate the plaintiff student's statutory claims is affirmed as the reference in an arbitration clause of a...

Monroe v. AR State Univ.

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law
In a suit involving plaintiff's dismissal from a nursing program, denial of summary judgment is reversed where: 1) the Eleventh Amendment bars suit...