Featured Cases

• Northeastern University et al v. Google, Inc.,

  2:2007cv00486
  Filed in Texas Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Patent
  Plaintiff: Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University and others... Defendant: Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,
  Judge: T. John Ward
  Cause Of Action: Patent Infringement
  (March 17, 2011)

• LoudCloud Systems, Inc. v. Sridhar et al

  6:2010cv00556
  Filed in Texas Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Copyrights
  Plaintiff: LoudCloud Systems, Inc. Defendant: Mythili Sridhar and Sridhar Iyer.
  Cause Of Action: Copyright Infringement
  (October 20, 2010)

• CARRINGTON et al v. DUKE UNIVERSITY et al

  1:2008cv00119
  Filed in North Carolina Middle District Court
  Type of Suit: Other Civil Rights
  Plaintiff: EDWARD CARRINGTON, CASEY J. CARROLL, MICHAEL P. CATALINO, GALE CATALINO, THOMAS V. CLUTE and others...; Defendant: DUKE UNIVERSITY, DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC., RICHARD BRODHEAD, PETER LANGE, LARRY MONETA and others...
  Cause Of Action: Federal Question
  (October 14, 2010)

• Fialka-Feldman v. Oakland University Board of Trustees

  2:2008cv14922
  Filed in Michigan Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Housing/Accommodations
  Plaintiff: Micah Fialka-Feldman Defendant: Oakland University Board of Trustees
  Cause Of Action: Fair Housing Act
  (September 6, 2010)

• Jarry v. Southington Bd of Ed et al

  3:2008cv00954
  Filed in Connecticut District Court
  Type of Suit: Employment
  Plaintiff: Marie Jarry; Defendant: Southington Bd of Ed, Southington Ed Assn, Joseph V. Erardi, Jr.
  Judge: Warren W. Eginton
  Cause Of Action: Federal Question
  (July 7, 2010)

Legislation

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3896 To amend section 8007 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ...

  To amend section 8007 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend eligibility for emergency and modernization grants to local educational agencies in which at least 10 percent of the property in each such agency is nontaxable due to the presence of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
  (February 1, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: S.Res.367 A resolution designating January 2012 as "National ...

  A resolution designating January 2012 as "National Mentoring Month".
  (January 31, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3878 Chemawa Indian School Trust Transfer and Self-Determination Act of 2012

  To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to hold in trust for the benefit of the nine federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon the Chemawa Indian School land and improvements, and for other purposes.
  (January 30, 2012)

• Bill Enacted: H.R.3237 SOAR Technical Corrections Act

  To amend the SOAR Act by clarifying the scope of coverage of the Act.
  January 31, 2012: Became Public Law No: 112-92.
  (January 30, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3865 College Tax Cut Extension Act of 2012

  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the American Opportunity Tax Credit.
  (January 30, 2012)

Regulations

• Rule - Program Integrity: Gainful Employment; Debt Measures

  Department of Education
  Rule
  Program Integrity:
  Gainful Employment; Debt Measures
  ,
  34386-34539 [2011-13905]
  Vol. 76 Monday, No. 113 June 13, 2011 Part III Department of Education 34 CFR Part 668 Program Integrity: Gainful Employment--Debt Measures; Final Rule Federal Register / Vol. 76 , No. 113 / Monday, June 13, 2011 / Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 668 RIN 1840-AD06 [Docket ID ED-2010-OPE-0012] Program Integrity: Gainful Employment--Debt Measures AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Final regulations. SUMMARY: The Secretary amends... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (June 12, 2011)

• Rule - Investing in Innovation Fund

  Department of Education
  Rule
  Investing in Innovation Fund
  ,
  32073-32081 [2011-13589]
  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Chapter II [Docket ID ED-2011-OII-0001] Investing in Innovation Fund AGENCY: Office of Innovation and Improvement, Department of Education. ACTION: Final revisions to priorities, requirements, and selection criteria. SUMMARY: The Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement amends the final priorities, requirements, and selection criteria under the Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) program as established in the notice of final priorities,... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (June 2, 2011)

• Rule - Impact Aid Programs: Corrections

  Department of Education
  Rule
  Impact Aid Programs:
  Corrections
  ,
  31855-31856 [2011-13590]
  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 222 RIN 1810-AB11 Impact Aid Programs; Corrections AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Final regulations; correction. SUMMARY: The Department of Education published final regulations in the Federal Register on April 28, 2011 (76 FR 23712) to amend the regulations governing the Impact Aid Discretionary Construction program, authorized under section 8007(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (June 1, 2011)

• Proposed Rule - Negotiated Rulemaking Committees; Public Hearings

  Department of Education
  Proposed Rule
  Negotiated Rulemaking Committees; Public Hearings
  ,
  25650-25652 [2011-10909]
  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Chapter VI [Docket ID ED-2011-OPE-0003] Negotiated Rulemaking Committees; Public Hearings AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Intent to establish negotiated rulemaking committees. SUMMARY: We announce our intention to establish one or more negotiated rulemaking committees to propose regulations under the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA). The committees will include representatives of organizations or groups... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (May 4, 2011)

• Rule - Impact Aid Programs

  Department of Education
  Rule
  Impact Aid Programs
  ,
  23712-23713 [2011-10239]
  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 222 RIN 1810-AA94 Impact Aid Programs AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Final regulations. SUMMARY: The Secretary of Education amends the regulations governing the Impact Aid Discretionary Construction program, authorized under section 8007(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. This program provides competitive grants for emergency repairs and modernization of school... [read document]
  View Document | Download PDF
  (April 27, 2011)

Articles

• Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross Section Data ...

  RISK, SHOCK, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: ON THE BRINK, . Fuentes and P. Seck eds., Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2010 Namsuk Kim United Nations - Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Date Posted: February 09, 2012 Working Paper Series The Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate School Quality Adam Stevenson University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics Date Posted: February 08, 2012 Working Paper Series Student Loans and Early Post-Graduation Earnings: Evidence from Decomposition Analysis Serguey Braguinsky and Atsushi Ohyama Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Hokkaido University - Graduate School of Economics & Business Administration Date Posted: February 07, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads Great Expectations and Hard Times - The (Non-Trivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism Sarah Brockhoff , Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks University of Freiburg (Germany) - College of Economics and Behavioral Sciences , University of Paderborn and University of Paderborn - Department of Economics Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads ICT Efforts in Education: Ensuring and Maintaining Quality Avneesh Kumar Department of Commerce Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Working Paper Series 4 downloads Management of Socially Relevant Quality of Higher Education: Do Indian Institutions Care it? Arup Barman Assam University - Department of Business Administration Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads FOCJ as Model for Financing the Estonian General Education Discussions on Estonian Economic Policy No. 2/2011 Peter Friedrich and Janno Reiljan University of Tartu - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and University of Tartu - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Date Posted: February 05, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Foot Voting, Political Ignorance, and Constitutional Design SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY SYMPOSIUM, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 202-227, Winter 2011, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-11 Ilya Somin George Mason University School of Law Date Posted: February 05, 2012 Last Revised: February 07, 2012
  (February 6, 2012)

• Predatory Ed: The Conflict between Public Good and For-Profit Higher Education

  Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 47, 2011, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-01 Osamudia R. James University of Miami School of Law Date Posted: January 10, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 9 downloads The Other Achievement Gap: Court-Dependent Youth and Education Law Journal of Law & Education, Vol. 21, 2012 Caroline Van Zile and Jesse Hahnel Yale Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: January 08, 2012 Last Revised: January 28, 2012
  (January 27, 2012)

• A Paradigm of First Amendment Dilemmas: Resolving Public School Library Censorship Disputes

  Western New England Law Review, Vol. 4, p. 1, 1981 Leora Harpaz Western New England University School of Law Date Posted: December 21, 2011 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads Disabled Education: A Critical Analysis of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 163 Ruth Colker Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law Date Posted: December 19, 2011 Working Paper Series 35 downloads Equality Beyond the Three-Part Test: Exploring and Explaining the Invisibility of Title IX’s Equal Treatment Requirement Marquette Sports Law Review, Forthcoming, Western New England University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-1 Erin Buzuvis and Kristine E. Newhall Western New England University School of Law and University of Iowa Date Posted: December 19, 2011 Last Revised: January 11, 2012
  (January 10, 2012)

• The New Romanian Legal Framework for Minorities’ Education

  Performance and Innovation in Education International Symposium, October 2011 Gabriela Zanfir and Dragos Alexandru Efrim University of Craiova - Faculty of Law and University of Craiova - Faculty of Law Date Posted: February 07, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads Education for Americans with Disabilities: Reconciling Idea with the 2008 ADA Amendments Northern Kentucky Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2010 Kathryn Smith and Richard A. Bales Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law and Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 5 downloads Protecting the Children: The Limits of School Restrictions on Anti-Gay Speech Kellam Conover Stanford Law School Date Posted: February 05, 2012 Working Paper Series 3 downloads The Road Not Taken: Catholic Legal Education at the Middle of the Twentieth Century American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 51, 2011 Lee J. Strang and John M. Breen University of Toledo College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law Date Posted: February 01, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 17 downloads Accountability in Voluntary Partnerships: To Whom and for What? Public Organization Review, Online First, November 2011 Muhittin Acar , Chao Guo and Kaifeng Yang Hacettepe University , University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration and Florida State University - Askew School of Public Administration and Policy Date Posted: January 30, 2012 Accepted Paper Series Plyler’s Legacy: Immigration and Higher Education in the 21st Century Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 2, p. 261, 2011, U of Houston Law Center No. 2012-A-4 Michael A. Olivas and Kristi L. Bowman University of Houston Law Center and Michigan State University College of Law Date Posted: January 27, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 5 downloads Standardized Tests: Recouping Development Costs and Preserving Integrity Thomas G. Field Jr. University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center) Date Posted: January 23, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Are Charters Enough Choice? School Choice and the Future of Catholic Schools Notre Dame Law Review, 2012, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-50 Nicole Stelle Garnett Notre Dame Law School Date Posted: January 20, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads Gun Control on College and University Campuses in the Wake of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law, 2012 Lewis Michael Wasserman University of Texas at Arlington Date Posted: January 18, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 22 downloads Legal Issues in College and University Internship Programs Academy of Legal Studies in Business Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 12, pp. 58-70, Spring 2011 Tammy Cowart and Mildred Blowen University of Texas at Tyler and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: January 18, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 27 downloads Immigrant Education and the Promise of Integrative Egalitarianism Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 2, p. 575, 2011 Victor C. Romero Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law Date Posted: January 13, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads Hovering Too Close: The Ramifications of Helicopter Parenting in Higher Education Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 12-05 Kathleen Elliott Vinson Suffolk University Law School Date Posted: January 11, 2012 Working Paper Series 21 downloads College Lessons: The Financial Risks of Dropping Out K. Porter, BROKE: HOW DEBT BANKRUPTS THE MIDDLE CLASS, Stanford University Press, 2012 , UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-2 Katherine M. Porter University of California - Irvine School of Law Date Posted: January 10, 2012 Last Revised: January 11, 2012
  (January 10, 2012)

• Students' Freedom from Excessive Force by Public School Officials: A Fourth or Fourteenth ...

  Kansas Journal of Law & Pubic Policy, Vol. 21, p. 35, 2011 Lewis Michael Wasserman University of Texas at Arlington Date Posted: January 06, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 8 downloads International Initiatives that Facilitate Global Mobility in Higher Education Michigan State Law Review, p. 305, 2011 Laurel S. Terry Penn State Dickinson School of Law Date Posted: January 05, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 34 downloads Structuring Reality So That the Law Will Follow: British Columbia Teachers' Quest for Collective Bargaining Rights Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 68, pp. 35-77, 2011 Sara Slinn York University - Osgoode Hall Law School Date Posted: December 28, 2011 Last Revised: January 09, 2012
  (January 8, 2012)

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