Legal issues

Technicality leads Iowa Supreme Court to throw out award to a former graduate student everyone agrees was sexually harassed.

It seems morbidly appropriate, somehow, that a basketball scandal brought to light two years ago because one player killed another should result in the National Collegiate Athletic Association imposing a modified version of its rarely used "death penalty" on Baylor University Thursday.

Southern accrediting group, after loss in court, reinstates the Florida college.

Students are major users of downloading software that justices say entertainment companies can sue over.

The case of William C. Bradford isn't quite what it seems, but it has riled up plenty of people in Indiana.

Federal appeals court rules that Penn official can be sued for comments made during university's grievance process.

North Carolina State U. found to have ignored repeated incidents involving a professor -- and to have promoted him.

Trustees acknowledge that their fight to stay independent is over and Georgia Baptist Convention will regain control.

University concedes defeat in its bid to remove the word "Confederate" from the name on a building.

The curtain did not fall silently on the Devil. But rather to a chorus of "I am offended."

In fact, the shouts by a group of Washington State University students pervaded the final performance in April of The Passion of the Musical -- a show that has become the subject of a free speech dispute months after its short run.