Court rulings

Yale and Penn law schools consider whether to keep fighting Solomon Amendment battles when the Supreme Court decided the war.

Federal appeals court ruling on U. of Arkansas helps clarify what public colleges can and can't do in regulating use of their campuses.

In church-state dispute, court says just because a university has spent federal grant doesn't mean it can't be forced to repay it.

Federal judge says public university doesn't have to recognize student groups that discriminate.

Federal judge makes clear that Chapel Hill must continue to recognize organization, but dismisses suit against university.

Eight years after a mentally ill man beat a fellow student to death in a dimly lit stairwell on the Knox College campus, an Illinois jury has found the college negligent and ordered it to pay $1.05 million to the family of the murdered student.

In March 1988, Clyde A. Best, then a student at Knox, a private liberal-arts institution in Galesburg, Ill., beat Andrea Racibozynski, a 19-year-old freshman, to death with a brick in a glass-enclosed stairwell. Best was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1999 after pleading guilty but mentally ill.

U.S. appeals court ruling narrows an exception giving them broad latitude in labor decisions governing "ministerial" employees.

Federal court ruling further broadens scope of law that allows individuals to sue colleges they accuse of defrauding government.

Supreme Court ruling narrows free speech rights of public employees -- but avoids question about relevance to higher education.

Instructors who give up tenure as part of early retirement or severance plans must pay Social Security taxes on the payments they receive, a divided federal appeals court ruled last week. Although the court’s ruling came in a case involving public school teachers, it conflicts with another appeals court’s 2001 decision in a case involving professors at North Dakota State University, which may lead the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve the issue nationally.