Court rulings

Justices decline to hear appeal of lawsuit challenging Education Department's policy on equity in sports.

A federal judge has dismissed a journalism professor's lawsuit charging that administrators at Kansas State University fired him as adviser of the Kansas State Collegian because they were unhappy with the student newspaper's content.

Supreme Court ruling expands studies that can legally be done using products of others' intellectual property.

George Mason faces allegations of bias in dispute over a test and make-up test.

State judge bars University of Kentucky from swearing in the official winner of a contested race.

La. appeals panel finds no race discrimination in LSU's 1989 dismissal of women's track and field coach.

A U.S. appeals court extends to higher education a 1988 Supreme Court ruling that let high schools review student content.

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

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.