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Lawyers OK to get $15.7M fees from big DeVry University marketing class action settlement, appeals panel says
An Illinois appeals court rejected an objector's attempt to rewrite the 2020 settlement that ended a class action lawsuit accusing Adtalem Global Education of misleading marketing -
Attorney General Raoul Applauds Governor Pritzker for Signing Legislation That Protects Student Loan Borrowers
Attorney General Raoul Applauds Governor Pritzker for Signing Legislation That Protects Student Loan Borrowers. -
Lawsuit: Evanston-Skokie school district 'anti-racism' curriculum, policies discriminate against white students, staff
The federal lawsuit, filed by a middle school teacher, claims District 65's anti-racism message paints 'whiteness' as wrong, immoral, and violates the Constitution and federal civil rights law. -
HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault in K-12 Schools
This training has been canceled and will be re-scheduled for a later date. -
Class action filed against Cortiva Institute over abrupt closure of Chicago Loop campus
A woman has filed a class action lawsuit against the company that operates Cortiva Insitute, alleging she and other students were defrauded and exploited. -
How much should schools pay for students' bigotry? Wilmington discrimination suit could define standard, set pattern
School officials in Wilmington have been hit with a lawsuit accusing them of ignoring a student's repeated pleas to stop racially-motivated bullying. The lawsuit has a difficult path ahead, but could have far-reaching implications, observers say -
Appeals panel: Male Purdue student suspended, kicked out of ROTC in 'fundamentally unfair' sex assault investigation
A federal appeals court has ruled a former Purdue University student has made a plausible case that the school wrongly suspended him, on the basis of his gender, for alleged sexual misdeeds against a female student, which he said ruined his ambition to become a naval officer, based on a process judges said "fell short" of what is required to suspend a high school student for misbehavior. -
Ex-U of Chicago student lawsuit: School discriminated, denied him chance to defend vs 'false' rape claims
A male former University of Chicago student is suing the school and a female student, saying his life was “shattered” a few days before he was to graduate last June, when the school, in an alleged act of gender discrimination, expelled him, over a rape accusation he says is false. -
Appeals court: Palatine grad’s motion for locker room access rendered moot by graduation
A transgender former student who sued over access to Palatine High School’s girls’ locker room saw an appeal dismissed last week when an appellate panel said she could not continue to press for an injunction forcing the school district to grant access, when she had already graduated. -
ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Attorney General Madigan urges Department of Education to continue to share student loan information
Attorney General Lisa Madigan called on the U.S. Department of Education to honor its historic partnerships by reinstating the long-standing practice of disclosing student loan information to state attorneys general – a practice it curtailed without explanation last month. -
Male student OK'd to continue discrimination lawsuit vs U of Chicago over sex assault accusations
For now, a Chicago federal judge has permitted a onetime student's suit to proceed against the University of Chicago, saying, while the student must furnish a more full explanation, he has squeaked out a plausible case a school official encouraged retaliation against him for complaining about sexual assault allegations. -
American Bar Assn sues Dept of Ed over rewrite of student loan forgiveness program rules
The American Bar Association has sued the federal government, asking the court to order the Department of Education to reinstate a student loan forgiveness program, which the federal agency had rescinded and applied retroactively to lawyers and others who had worked in what they believed had qualified under the terms of the program as "public service" jobs at the ABA and other non-profit membership organizations after graduating college. -
Male student says University of Chicago's sexual assault policies created 'hostile environment'
A University of Chicago student has sued the school, arguing its sexual assault investigation system has created a "hostile environment against males," which has violated his constitutional rights and potentially those of other male students. -
Whistleblower suit says CPS fired bus manager for uncovering collusion among bus vendors, CPS
A man who formerly helped manage the Chicago Public Schools’ busing contracts has sued CPS, alleging the city’s public schools system fired him for “political and financial reasons” after he attempted to end practices which he claimed allowed the busing vendors to work together to allegedly bilk CPS and taxpayers who support it out of untold millions of dollars and costing CPS students millions of hours of lost classroom time in the process. -
Not likely jury would've believed for-profit colleges tried to pocket admission reps' bonuses, judge says
A federal court has denied a man’s attempt to sue his former employer, a Schaumburg-based operator of several for-profit career education colleges, over its termination of a bonus incentive program he says cost him thousands. U.S. Magistrate Judge Geraldine Soat Brown granted summary judgment in December to defendant Career Education Corporation, which operates Le Cordon Bleu College, American Intercontinental University and Colorado Technical University.