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A federal appeals court on Thursday directed a lower court to overturn its March 2011 ruling in a legal fight between the University of Illinois and The Chicago Tribune, saying that the student privacy issues raised in the case would be better addressed by a state court. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit states that the newspaper's claim to the information it sought from the university -- about student applicants and their parents, as part of the Tribune's 2009 investigation into political influence in the admissions process -- arose under state law rather than federal law. Numerous higher education groups had joined the university in arguing that the lower court's decision would undermine student privacy protections.
