State Court Backs Tulane in Lawsuit Over Closing of College

A state appeals court in Louisiana ruled narrowly Wednesday that Tulane University acted legally when it shuttered its undergraduate women's college in its post-Hurricane Katrina restructuring, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans reported. Tulane closed Newcomb College in 2006 citing financial woes, prompting a lawsuit in which heirs to Josephine Louise Newcomb asserted that the closure violated the terms of the endowment she gave the university. But like several previous courts, the appeals court ruled, 3 to 2, that Tulane was bound by no such condition.