Sentences with phrase «lawsuit against the school»

At a recent Michigan State board of trustees meeting, a Larry Nassar victim came forth and accused the school's interim President John Engler of attempting to get her to agree to a payoff in a meeting without her lawyers so she would drop her civil lawsuit against the school.

The Park Board has scheduled an executive session for Saturday morning, and board President Ken Nolan said he expects the five - member board to vote to proceed with a lawsuit against the school district.

Thomas Ramsdell, attorney for Protect Our Parks, which filed a lawsuit against the school and parks agency, said he had no specifics on a possible offer.

The family of a Montclair High School football player who died two days after collapsing in a 2008 junior varsity game agreed Monday to settle its lawsuit against the school and the township's Board of Education for $ 2.8 million, the family's lawyer said.

His lawyers say they are appealing the removal and continuing a Civil Rights lawsuit against the school board.

An assistant professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School since 2008 has filed a sexual harassment / discrimination lawsuit against the school, seeking more than $ 20 million in damages and more time to apply for tenure.

Nine current and former University of Rochester professors and students have filed a lawsuit against the school's President Joel Seligman and Provost Robert Clark, alleging sexual misconduct by Professor T. Florian Jaeger and U of R's refusal to take action on behalf of the victims.

Mr. Haeder brought the lawsuit against the school and a mountain guide, Ralph Summers, who helped lead the 13 - member expedition up the mountain.

«Any kind of lawsuit against school districts, especially any kind of broad action of any kind, that certainly seems to be premature,» said Katherine Joyce, executive director of the N.C. Association of School Administrators (NCASA), a Raleigh group that speaks for administrative leaders in local school districts.

Blaine amendments remain in force in 37 states, and they are being cited in lawsuits against school choice programs in Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Nevada.

A lawsuit against a school participating in a trial seems unwarranted.

California's attorney general filed a lawsuit against the schools and its subsidiaries (Heald, Everest College, and WyoTech) in 2013 for a predatory scheme targeting low - income students, and the schools were accused of falsely advertising programs that didn't exist, misleading students about their credits transferring to Cal State, and engaging in illegal debt collection practices.

The trouble is that I have been unable to find resources for representing myself in court in a lawsuit against the school.

In May, students and professors at Cooper Union — an art, architecture, and engineering college in New York City — filed a lawsuit against the school's Board of Trustees.

Nungesser is now filing a second Title IX lawsuit against the school, which forbids sex - based prejudice at schools that receive federal funds.

Faculty, students and alumni, under the Committee to Save Cooper Union (CSCU), filed a lawsuit against the school's board, challenging the necessity of instating tuition.

On September 1, 2015, the school and the Committee to Save Cooper Union (CSCU) announced that the committee's lawsuit against the school's administration was resolved in the form of a consent decree signed by Cooper Union, New York State's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and the CSCU.

The plaintiff filed a personal injury lawsuit against the school, claiming that it was negligent in allowing the students to play floor hockey and in using the wrong equipment.

If you or your child has suffered an injury while at school or as a result of a school injury, you may have grounds to file a personal injury lawsuit against the school and / or the person responsible for the accident or injury.

In light of all the recent cyberbullying cases, as well as the recent New York cases involving the liability of school security officers for abusing their power; Pennsylvania personal injury attorneys will soon start seeing their share of lawsuits against schools.

A former Mississippi State University baseball player has filed a lawsuit against the school's baseball coach.

Generally, personal injury lawsuits against school districts tend to be tricky because, first and foremost, public schools are agents of the government.

The plaintiff filed a personal injury lawsuit against the school, arguing that it was negligent in having too many students play at one time, in using the wrong type of ball, and in selecting floor hockey as a required part of the curriculum.

Because drivers act as agents for school districts, accident victims harmed in crashes can file school bus crash lawsuits against the school district to recover for their medical care, future lost wages, and pain and suffering.

A school's status as a public or private institution can affect what legal grounds an injured party may have for filing a lawsuit against the school district.

* The Charlotte School of Law may be dead, but that doesn't mean that former students» proposed class - action lawsuits against the school have been put out to pasture.

Whether a child injury at school is intentional or not may have some bearing on the school district's culpability, but bringing a lawsuit against a school can be tricky no matter what the basis.

Finding that it did not, the court dismissed the plaintiff's lawsuit against the school.

When the negligence of a faculty member results in a child being injured a parent may wish to file a lawsuit against the school district.

As part of the court's decision, it considered whether the federal Volunteer Protection Act would absolutely prohibit the parents from bringing a lawsuit against the School's Board of Trustees, based on the allegations made in the complaint.

Not exact matches

The school would be shut down after five years and, earlier this year, a $ 25 million settlement was finalized with former students who filed a lawsuit against Trump's real estate academy for predatory practices.

A five - year - old lawsuit against the Ivy League school, filed by its neighbors, is challenging its tax - exempt status, Bloomberg reports.

Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.

We'll get to that in a minute, though, because also on stage was David Carroll, the associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York who filed a lawsuit against Cambridge to find out what data the company has about him.

David and Francine Wheeler, whose 6 - year - old son Benjamin was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the weapon used in the mass killing.

A hearing is scheduled for today in the lawsuit filed against the driver accused of hitting two King High School students.

Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack, filed a lawsuit Monday against Scot Peterson, a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who served as a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

An earlier version of this article misstated the amount that Anna Alaburda is seeking in damages in her lawsuit against the Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

In the early 1960s, Madalyn O'Hair, an atheist communist filed a lawsuit against prayer in public schools that made it's way all the way to the Supreme Court of the U.S..

Former USC coach Steve Sarkisian has filed a lawsuit against the university, alleging that the school broke the law for firing him without allowing him to seek treatment for alcoholism, which is defined as a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

A lawsuit would be filed against the school over the email scandal, but was thrown out twice.

The school's lawsuit stemmed from a request by the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office, which asked the school not to turn over certain reports, because the prosecutors have yet to determine whether they will press charges against those named in the reports.

A Mississippi father of a high school football player filed a class - action lawsuit this week against the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associaschool football player filed a class - action lawsuit this week against the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School AssociaSchool Associations.

One parent even filed a lawsuit against the league that organizes public school sports.

The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order barring payments to the private school and a preliminary injunction against enforcing the June agreement.

In 1993, he helped initiate a lawsuit against Kane County and the Settler's Hill landfill, which is operated by Waste Management, on behalf of the school district.

«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.

Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

The state School Boards Association, Council of School Superintendents, United Teachers, and the School Administrators have filed yet another lawsuit against Gov. David Paterson, challenging the legality and constitutionality of his decision to withhold $ 2.1 billion worth of payments scheduled for March 31.