Selected Resources for:

An Overview of Selected Legal Issues in Higher Education

 

 

Host: Hamline University

January 12, 2006

by

Peter C. Wolk, Esquire

Washington, DC

Nonprofitlaw@aol.com

 

 

Discrimination; Sexual Harassment:

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d)

 

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. § 1681(a)).

 

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

 

In re: University of North Carolia-Chapel Hill, U.S. Dept. of Educ OCR Docket No. 11-04-6001 (Sept. 22, 2004).

 

Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District, 524 U.S. 274, 286-290 (1998).

 

Minn. Statutes: Criminal Sexual Conduct: MN 609.341.

 

King, et al. v Eastern Michigan University, 221 F.Supp.2d 783 (E.D. Mich, 2002).

 

Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998).

 

Torts:

 

Nova Southeastern Univ. v. Gross, 758 So.2d 86 (Fla. 2000).

 

Mullins v. Pine Manor College, 449 N.E. 2d 331 (Mass 1983).

 

Furek v. University of Delaware, 594 A.2d 506 (De. 1991).

 

Knoll v. University of Nebraska, 601 N.W.2d 757 (Neb. 1999)

 

Lloyd v. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and Cornell University, 96-CV-348, 1999 U.S.Dist. LEXIS 906 (N.D.N.Y. 1999).

 

Booker v. Lehigh University, 800 F. Supp. 234 (E.D. Pa 1994).

 

Coghlan v. Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, 987 P.2d 300 (Id. 1999).

 

Shin v. MIT, Slip Op. 02-0403 (Mass. Super. Ct. (June 27, 2005).

 

Eiseman v State, 518 N.Y.S. 2d 608 (Ct. App. N.Y. 1987).

 

Paneno v. Centres for Academic Programmes Abroad, Ltd., 13 Cal.Rptr.3d 759 (Cal. Ct. App. 2004). 

 

McNeil v. Wagner College, 667 N.Y.S.2d 397 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998).

 

Fay v. Thiel College, 2001 WL 1910037 (Pa.Com.Pl. 2001),

Bloss v. University of Minnesota Board of Regents, 590 N.W.2d 661 (Minn. Ct. App. 1999). 

 

R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992),

Student Discipline

Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565 (1975)

Gorman v. University of Rhode Island, 837 F.2d 7 (1st Cir. 1988). 

Bradshaw v. Rawlings, 612 F.2d 135 (3rd Cir. 1979) cert denied, 446 U.S. 909 (1980).

 

Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education, 294 F2d 150 (5th Cir 1961) cert denied, 368 U.S. 930 (1961).

Faculty Rights

 
In re Natelson v. Univ of Montana School of Law (Arb. Aug 25, 2004).

Affirmative Action:

Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003)

 

Univ of Calif v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).

 

Podberesky v. Kirwan, 38 F3d 147 (4th Circuit 1994), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1128 (1995).

 

Security:

 

The Student Right to Know and The Campus Security Act, Pub. L. 101-542, 34 C.F.R. Secion 668.46 et seq.

 

ADA Authority:

 

Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. section 12101 et seq.

 

Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc., 527 U.S. 471 (1999).

 

Doe v. New York Univ., 666 F.2d 761 (2d Cir. 1981) [ADA: student with serious psychiatric and mental disorders].

 

Dixie College, 8 Nat’l Disability L. Rep, section 31 (Off.Civ.Rts. 1995).

 

North Cent. Technical College, 11 Nat’l Disability L. Rep, section 326 (Off. Civ. Rts. 1997).

South Suburban Coll, 13 Nat’l Disability L. Rep, section 94 (Off. Civ.Rts. 1998).

 

Childress v. Clement, 5 F.Supp. 2d 284 (E.D. VA 1998).

Northern Illinios Univ., 7 Nat’l Disability L. Rep, section 392 (Off. Civ. Rts. 1995). 

 

Southeastern Community College v. Davis, 442 U.S. 397 (1979).

 

Guckenberger v. Boston Univ, 974 F.Supp 106 (D.Mass 1997); 8 F.Supp. 2d 82 (D.Mass 1998).

 

Bird v. Lewis & Clark College, 104 F.Supp. 2d 1271 (D. Oregon (1999).

 

Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd., Slip Op. 03-1388 (U.S. Sup. Ct, June 6, 2005).

 

 

FERPA

 

Selkirk v. Univ. of Oklahoma, Slip Op. 84,721 (Okla. 2d Div. Ct. App. May 2, 1995, unreported).

 

State ex rel The Miami Student v. Miami University, 680 N.E. 2d 956 (Ohio), cert denied, 522 U.S. 1022 (1997). 

 

Daily Tar Heel Publishing Co. v. University of North Carolina, 496 S.E. 2d 8 (N.C. App.) rev denied 510 S.C.2d (N.C. 1998).

 

Kirwan v. The Diamondback, 721 A.2d 196 (Md. 1998).