Supreme Court rejects heightened standard in school disability lawsuits
6/17/25
By: Thomas R. Starks
In a decision issued on June 12, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Ava Tharpe, a Minnesota student with severe epilepsy who was denied an accommodation request, in the case of A.J.T. …
District court finds that university had no special duty to protect minors visiting campus
4/17/25
On Feb. 4, 2025, the District Court of New Jersey found that it would not be fair “to impose upon Princeton a proactive duty to monitor and protect all comers who walk onto its campus – …
NCAA student-athletes may be employees under the FLSA
7/23/24
By: Noël Couch
The debate over whether college athletes should be paid has grown commonplace and contentious over the past decade as the business of college sports has thrived amid billion dollar television contracts and while coaches are receiving similarly …
Colleges on alert for ‘borrower defense to repayment’ claims from the Department of Education
4/17/24
By: Noël Couch and A. Neil Hartzell
As the cost of college tuition is on the rise, so are the number of claims brought by student borrowers seeking repayment of their loans. Federal regulation provides an avenue for borrowers to …
Emerging litigation trends in college athletics
1/30/24
By: Travis A. Knobbe
Let us start by stating the obvious. It is not often that a large, national law firm writes an article or blog entry focusing specifically on college athletics. That said, the sea changes sweeping the NCAA …
Exhaustion Not Required: Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools
3/31/23
By Tia J. Combs and Sean C. Harrison
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a rare 9-0 decision in Miguel Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, extending its decision in Fry v. Napoleon County Schools that exhaustion under …