Ivy League case tests Rockefeller drug law change
According to the Associated Press, they were students who juggled an elite education with criminal extracurriculars, dealing an array of drugs from Ivy League dorm rooms and frat…
Litigation
Ohio mom jailed for lying about kids’ school residency
How far would you go to get your children into a better public school? The best intentions of one Ohio woman landed her in jail, AOL News reports.…
For-profit college group sues over regulations
A group representing for-profit colleges and trade schools filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the U.S. Department of Education seeking to block new regulations of the sector, the…
Verizon challenges new net-neutrality rules in court
In a case with important implications for schools as well as consumers, Verizon Communications Inc. on Jan. 20 filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit…
Pa. school district sued over truancy fines
A federal lawsuit accuses a Pennsylvania school district of imposing excessive and illegal fines on truant children or their families, including one parent ordered to pay $27,000 and…
Former student sues college over stay in a mental ward
At Brooklyn College, in 2008, Sophia Chinemerem Eze went to the security staff there, saying she had experienced problems with her off-campus roommates and suspected that her landlord…
N.H. case: Can a divorced parent veto home schooling?
When divorced parents disagree on whether a child should be home-schooled, how should courts weigh the issues? It’s a difficult job, especially when part of the dispute is…
EEOC suing Kaplan over alleged racial discrimination
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday sued The Washington Post Co.'s Kaplan Higher Education unit, alleging that it discriminated against black job applicants by refusing to hire…
U.S. gov’t worker pleads guilty to accessing student files
According to PCWorld, a former employee of the U.S. Department of Education has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing confidential loan files of several hundred college students on an…
Supreme Court rejects illegal downloading argument
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a Texas teenager who got in trouble for illegal downloading of music—a potential blow to students who might…
An unsealed lawsuit indicates Dell hid faults of computers
Documents unsealed Thursday in a three-year-old lawsuit against Dell have raised more questions about how the company handled an unprecedented number of faulty computers sold to governments, schools…
Feds: Woman illegally fired over Facebook remarks
A Connecticut woman who was fired after she posted disparaging remarks about her boss on Facebook has prompted a first-of-its-kind legal case by federal authorities who say her…
Ellison: Oracle has $4 billion case against SAP
Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison turned up the pressure in an industrial espionage trial Monday by testifying that archenemy SAP AG should have paid $4 billion for licenses…
Trial opens over damages in Oracle copyright case with SAP
The dispute between the software giants Oracle and SAP, in one of the most closely watched court cases in Silicon Valley history, is not over whether SAP engaged…
Should student athletes profit from video game sales?
Basketball star Ed O’Bannon and quarterback Sam Keller each earned most valuable player awards during their collegiate careers. Now, years after playing their final games, they are pursuing…
Google says Buzz privacy complaints are false, settles for cash anyway
When Google released Google Buzz in February, there was a backlash. The backlash became, in turn, a lawsuit. That lawsuit has now been settled. In a note to…
Kansas sued again over school funding
A group of Kansas public school districts filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the state has again unconstitutionally short-changed students, Reuters reports.
Google sues US government agency over using Microsoft only
Google has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior for requiring that messaging technologies must be part of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite in…
Pa. school district settles webcam spy lawsuits for $610K
A Philadelphia-area school district agreed Monday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops. The Lower Merion School District admitted it captured…
Pa. school settles 2 webcam spy lawsuits for $610K
A Philadelphia-area school district agreed Monday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops, reports the Associated Press.
Apple challenges $625.5M patent-infringement award to Yale prof
Apple Inc. is challenging a federal jury's order that it pay $625.5 million in damages for violating the patents of a small technology company founded by a Yale…
Teens sue Facebook over ‘like’ button
Two Los Angeles County teenagers are suing Facebook, claiming the social networking giant effectively sold their names and images to advertisers without parental permission.
ACLU says Washington schools can’t seize student phones
The American Civil Liberties Union has objected to a proposed new policy in a Washington state school system that would let school officials seize students’ cell phones if…
CSU must reveal Sarah Palin speech contract, judge rules
California State University, Stanislaus, and its private foundation violated the state’s public-records law when they withheld a speaking contract for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin earlier this year,…
Columbia grad sues Google to unmask malicious poster
A business consultant wants a court to force YouTube and its owner, Google Inc., to reveal the identity of someone who posted what she says are unauthorized videos…
Massachusetts school district sues e-Rate consulting firm
The Nashoba Regional School District in Bolton, Mass., has filed a federal lawsuit claiming "breach of contract" and alleging a New York technology company misrepresented the quality of…
Feds: No charges in school laptop-spying case
No criminal charges will be filed against a suburban Philadelphia school district that secretly snapped tens of thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots on laptops issued to…
Florida to sue major LCD makers for price fixing
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said on Aug. 10 he is suing the world's biggest makers of liquid crystal display screens for engaging in a "conspiracy at the…
Intel Settles With F.T.C. On Antitrust
The New York Times reports that Intel agreed to refrain from a host of business practices to settle accusations of anticompetitive behavior in the market for computer processing…
Calif. high court upholds affirmative action ban
California's high court on Aug. 2 upheld the state's 14-year-old law barring preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school admissions, government hiring, and contracting, reports the…
Justice Dept. joins suit accusing Oracle of overcharging U.S.
The Justice Department has joined a whistle-blower in accusing business software giant Oracle Inc. of defrauding the federal government by overcharging for software, reports the New York Times.…
The web means the end of forgetting
The digital age is facing its first existential crisis, reports the New York Times: the impossibility of erasing your posted past and moving on.
Boston judge cuts penalty in song-sharing case
A federal judge on July 9 drastically trimmed a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University graduate student who was found liable for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs…
Judge OKs iPhone class action against Apple, AT&T
A federal judge says a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc.'s mobile phone unit can move forward as a class action, reports the Associated Press.
Judge orders school newspaper to delete stories
Should school newspapers, or any newspapers for that matter, be forced to delete archived stories in order to clear a person’s record online? That’s the issue before a…
iPhone 4 antenna glitch sparks lawsuit
A pair of Maryland residents filed a lawsuit against Apple on June 30, claiming the iPhone 4's wonky antenna has caused them "emotional distress," InformationWeek reports.
In faulty-computer suit, window to Dell decline
After the math department at the University of Texas noticed some of its Dell computers failing, Dell examined the machines. The company came up with an unusual reason…
Major copyright ruling a victory for ‘user-generated content’
In a high-stakes legal battle with important implications for the future of the internet, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in New York sided with Google Inc. on June…
Intel, FTC in talks to settle antitrust case
Intel Corp. and the Federal Trade Commission are in talks to settle an antitrust case against the chip maker, a move that might increase competition in the chip…
Four charged in Texas videotaped school beating
In a striking example of how cell-phone cameras are making what goes on behind the classroom door more public, a teacher and three other educators at a Houston…