Tag: Law: Page 113

Home

Critics Take Aim at University of California Patent Shield

In the lucrative world of patents, the University of California is a major player. It receives by far more patents from the U.S. government than any school in the country. Yet, when it comes to getting sued for patent infringement, the university, as well as the state of California, are Teflon.

November 13, 2007

Disabilties

Best & Brightest: Injury Leads Student to New Career Goal, New Charity, New Outlook on Life

During his freshman year at Pennsylvania State University in 2000, Adam Taliaferro had dreams of entering the NFL. But during the season’s fifth game against Ohio State, Taliaferro’s life took a dramatic turn.

November 4, 2007

Students

Court: University of California Overcharged Students $34 Million

SAN FRANCISCO The University of California system overcharged 35,000 graduate and undergraduate students $33.8 million in fees four years ago, a state appeals court has ruled.

November 4, 2007

Home

One Teacher Faces Firing, Others Reprimanded in Noose Incident

GRAMBLING, La. A teacher at a north Louisiana elementary school may be fired and three others face reprimands for placing a noose around a child’s neck during a demonstration about racism.

November 1, 2007

Home

Florida A&M Law School Scandal Could Turn Up at Fen-phen Trial

LOUISVILLE Ky. A $1 million endowed chair at Florida A&M Law school could become central to the trial of three Kentucky lawyers on wire fraud charges that they bilked clients out of millions in a settlement over the diet drug fen-phen.

October 30, 2007

Home

Some Oral Roberts University Alumni Want Christian Mediation Instead of Lawsuit

TULSA Okla. Some Oral Roberts University alumni have said they wished a dispute between university officials and several former professors could have been resolved without a lawsuit, but the plaintiffs’ attorney said he unsuccessfully tried to handling the issue privately before going to court.

October 21, 2007

Home

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Yale Affirmative Action for His Early Job Problems

NEW HAVEN Conn. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school’s affirmative action policies in the 1970s for his difficulty finding a job after he graduated.

October 21, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Jury Deadlocks in Texas Southern Trial

HOUSTON Jurors deliberating whether Texas Southern University’s former president misspent school funds to lavishly decorate her homes said they were at an impasse Wednesday, but the judge told them to keep working.

October 9, 2007

Home

William Murphy, law professor who challenged segregation, dead at 87

JACKSON, Miss. Constitutional law professor William P. Murphy, who enraged Mississippi segregationists in the 1950s and 1960s by teaching that school integration was the law of the land, died Saturday of prostate cancer. He was 87.

October 1, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Troubled FAMU Law School Gets A Boost From New Dean, Higher Bar Exam Pass Rate

Florida A&M University’s Law School, which faces a possible loss of its accreditation, recently got a boost in the form of a new dean and good news about higher pass rates on the bar exam.

September 30, 2007

Students

Stingier job market awaits new law school grads

A law degree isn’t necessarily a license to print money these days.

September 23, 2007

Home

School at center of civil rights battle celebrates 75 years

NEW MARKET Tenn. The little school tucked away in the east Tennessee mountains may have faded from the public spotlight, but it was once at the center of the struggle for civil rights.

September 22, 2007