Overlawyered » colleges and universities http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Law students sue over bad grades http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/law-students-sue-over-bad-grades/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/law-students-sue-over-bad-grades/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:32:17 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27467 The former Texas Southern students say their D on Contracts was arbitrary and capricious. [Houston Chronicle] Per @tedfrank, “Doesn’t it sort of prove you deserve the bad law-school grade when you bring a frivolous lawsuit over it?”

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/law-students-sue-over-bad-grades/feed/ 3 February 9 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-9-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-9-roundup-3/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:07:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27470
  • Ninth Circuit panel strikes down California’s Prop 8 [Volokh, Kerr, Magliocca, Lithwick, Steve Chapman]
  • Judge dismisses PETA “killer whales enslaved” case [Caroline May/Daily Caller, CNN, earlier]
  • “Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web – And Might Win” [Joe Mullin/Wired, earlier; more on testimony by Web father Tim Berners-Lee] Update: Ding Dong! Jury rejects claim;
  • “Further Analysis of the Bottle-Rocket Case” [Lowering the Bar, earlier]
  • As patients suffer: “The War Over Prescription Painkillers,” start of a Radley Balko series [HuffPo parts one, two so far]
  • Richard Epstein on federal fiat and Yale disciplinary procedure [Defining Ideas] Under new-style rules at Yale, will a professor even be aware he’s been accused and henceforth is to be “monitored”? [KC Johnson]
  • Jim Copland testimony on abuses in government contingent-fee litigation [Manhattan Institute, PDF] “Parens patriae” proposal to replace class actions with state attorney general suits, but with private entrepreneurial bar still in saddle [Adam Zimmerman/Prawfs on Myriam Gilles/Gary Friedman, SSRN]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-9-roundup-3/feed/ 3     Sex and man at Yale http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/sex-and-man-at-yale/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/sex-and-man-at-yale/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:10:30 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27363 Is life at the university fairer under the new sex-complaint procedures mandated by the federal Department of Education? Don’t ask the New York Times [Peter Berkowitz via Ann Althouse] More: Kathleen Parker, WaPo; Brisbane/NYT via Romenesko.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/sex-and-man-at-yale/feed/ 1     Law schools roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/law-schools-roundup-12/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/law-schools-roundup-12/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:13:04 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26354
  • New York Times sets off furor with article on role of ABA accreditation in driving up law school costs, a theme explored by several recent authors including me in Schools for Misrule [David Segal/NYT, Somin, Bader/Examiner, Above the Law, Gideon Kanner, Matt Leichter/AmLaw, Macchiarola/Minding the Campus, Brian Tamanaha (on ABA dispute with fledgling Duncan Law School)] ABA president claims high tuitions unrelated to accreditation rules [Reuters]
  • Related: “Data Show Feds Will Lend $54.3 Billion to U.S. Law Schools by 2020″ [Matt Leichter, AmLaw]
  • The politics of the AALS, which just held its annual meeting in Washington [Bainbridge repost]
  • Former North Dakota attorney general files spate of age bias suits after many schools turn him down for law professor position [TaxProf]
  • “Some Words of Advice for Law Students, from 1811” [Kyle Graham (Santa Clara), guestblogging at Concurring Opinions last month; among topics of Graham's other posts were the famous tort case of Summers v. Tice and suspect kinds of law review articles]
  • Prof. Lawrence Connell’s fight with Widener U. and its offended dean in “wild hypotheticals” case [Hans Bader/Minding The Campus, earlier here, here, etc.]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/law-schools-roundup-12/feed/ 5     Great moments in academia http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/great-moments-in-academia/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/great-moments-in-academia/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:10:45 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26598 Not a parody: A Columbia University course will give students credit for Occupy Wall Street activism [CBS New York]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/great-moments-in-academia/feed/ 9     Schools roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/schools-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/schools-roundup/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:54:46 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26084
  • Students respond to L.A.’s “healthful” school lunch initiative with a loud “yuck” [L.A. Times, Michelle Malkin/NRO]
  • L.I.: School suspends students for “Tebow” kneeling in hallway [Newsday]
  • “Growing number of college students asking for wiggle room with their academic workloads due to mental health issues.” [WSJ]
  • Proposal to address “learning disability” tangle: give all test-takers extra time [Ruth Colker, SSRN, see p. 126] A.D.H.D. diagnosis and the academic struggle for advantage [Melana Zyla Vickers, NYT "Room for Debate"] “Pediatrician Group Seeks to Boost ADHD Diagnoses” [Sullum]
  • Will distance technology defeat the teachers’ union? [Larry Sand, City Journal]
  • Time to repeal Maryland’s awful “maintenance of effort” law on school funding [WaPo, Baltimore Sun] Contra: MSEA, PDF.
  • French-language cops: “Montreal schools move to scan playground chatter” [Ottawa Citizen]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/schools-roundup/feed/ 3     Dogs in the dorms http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dogs-in-the-dorms/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dogs-in-the-dorms/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:31:31 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25991 The Justice Department has sued the University of Nebraska-Kearney and its regents and employees for allegedly “denying reasonable accommodation requests by students with psychological or emotional disabilities seeking to live with emotional assistance animals in university housing.” [Disability Law]

    More/update: Inside Higher Ed.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dogs-in-the-dorms/feed/ 6     November 17 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:25:20 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25586
  • Executive with “Autism Speaks” group quits to found group more aligned with scientific opinion on cause of condition [SciAm]
  • Here comes the ban-cigarettes-entirely crusade [Peter Singer on forthcoming Robert Proctor "Golden Holocaust"] “Parents try to blame Four Loko for son getting shot” [Elie Mystal, Above the Law] Still-relevant cartoon from ’30s on Federal War on Drugs (or Booze, take your pick) [Perry]
  • Controversy over definition of medical disorders in DSM-V has implications for workplace law including ADA, FMLA [Labor Related, petition]
  • “Not Safe to Display an American Flag in an American High School” [Volokh]
  • “Criminal Defense Lawyer Charged in Alleged $1.5M Fraud On Clients Obtained Under False Pretenses” [ABA Journal, Greenfield; Texas]
  • Father of Notre Dame student who died says family never considered suing [Chicago Tribune]
  • “The Ignominious End Of The Digitek Mass Tort” [Beck]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/feed/ 2     “No Muslim student at Catholic University has registered a complaint…” http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/no-muslim-student-at-catholic-university-has-registered-a-complaint/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/no-muslim-student-at-catholic-university-has-registered-a-complaint/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:14:19 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25524 While a publicity-seeking lawprof has been stirring the pot, it’s by no means clear that any actual Catholic U. students consider it intolerably irksome to pray in a room with a cross. [PJ Media "Tatler", earlier]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/no-muslim-student-at-catholic-university-has-registered-a-complaint/feed/ 1     Wall Street protests roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/wall-street-protests-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/wall-street-protests-roundup/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:04:00 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25356 With some help from Cato colleagues:

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