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Reports on a lawsuit filed by Coretta Scott King against Boston University for the return of the papers of the late Martin Luther King Jr. King's deposit of his papers at the university in 1968; Claim that the papers belong to King's estate, not the university; Proposal that the papers be kept at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia.

Informs that the University of California at San Francisco can continue to display on the World Wide Web papers stolen from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. The June 1995 ruling by the California Supreme Court; The papers' revelation that tobacco companies concealed the addictiveness of nicotine from the public for years; How the university obtained the papers; Number of users accessing the papers on the Web site; Details.

The article discusses a court case wherein a police incident at a dormitory in Michigan State University (MSU) led to a request for detailed information by the student-run periodical, "State News," invoking the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In State News v. Mich. State Univ., the Michigan Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's determination that an MSU police report was exempt from disclosure under Michigan's FOIA. The court of appeals found the arguments of both parties to be weak.

Reports on the lawsuit filed by the `Daily Nexus', University of California of Santa Barbara's campus paper, against Governor Pete Wilson and the University of California Board of Regents for allegedly violating the state's open meeting law. Board of Regents' roll back of affirmative action in admissions after private phone calls with Wilson; Demands in the suit.

The article talks about cardiac stem cell scientist Piero Anversa who is suing Brigham University claiming that the evidence of misconduct uncovered in an investigation by the university and Women's Hospital has wrongfully damaged his career. The investigation into the laboratory of Anversa was driven by the retraction of a 2012 paper published in the journal "Circulation." Anversa blames Jan Kajstura, a former member of the lab and first author of the paper, on the retracted paper.

Reports that the University of California has won the right to distribute on the World Wide Web the internal documents and memos from cigarette manufacturer Brown & Williamson suggesting that the company was aware of the addictive and cancer-causing nature of cigarettes at least 30 years ago. Brown & Williamson's legal action to get the papers back, claiming that they had been stolen; Web site address.

The article cites a plagiarism case decided by the Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO) of the U.S. Department of Education. It states that FPCO received an inquiry as to whether an institution would violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) if college teachers require students to submit their papers to a plagiarism prevention service. FPCO claimed that a university has the right to require students to submit their papers to the screening service before handling them in.

The article presents information about several papers about the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act, that appeared in different publications recently. The paper "The Law of Unintended Consequences," written by Clinton Leaf and published in the September 19, 2005 issue of the journal "Fortune," states that in 2002, North American academic institutions spent over $200 million in litigation--more than five times the amount spent in 1991. According to the paper "Innovation's Golden Goose," published in the December 2002 Technology Quarterly of the journal "The Economist," possibly the most inspired piece of legislation to be enacted in America over the past half-century was the Bayh-Dole act of 1980.

The article discusses the court case Michael McAdoo vs. University of North Carolina (UNC) which deals on plagiarism. McAdoo obtains his former tutor's help regarding the footnotes in a paper for a Swahili class in July 2009. The UNC has sanctioned McAdoo to be prohibited on playing the football season for 2010 and 2011 as a punishment for his violation in school rules. The trial court's decision is in favor of UNC.

The article presents a case concerning residence hall privacy in Washington State University (WSU). Accordingly, the paper offers a complete details on the incident where an officer from the WSU Police Department who was called for a particular student for a complaint of burglary, made a search on the room of other resident in the campus without a warrant. The court of appeals found that the search and seizure conducted by the WSU police was indeed unlawful.

The article presents the decision of the Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO) regarding the case of the student right violation through the plagiarism service of a university. FPCO has received an inquiry if the university who require the students to pass their papers in a plagiarism screening violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FPCO ruled that the university has the right to employ the screening service to avoid piracy.

The article discusses a court case wherein the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the District Court favoring Kansas State University (KSU) stating that the graduation of the complainants made the free speech claims moot, and sent back the case to the District Court for dismissal. In the Lane v. Simon, Katie Lane and Sarah Rice, editors of "Kansas State Collegian," filed First and 14th Amendment claims against KSU after the university terminated the services of the paper's advisor.

Presents the case, McConnell v. Le Moyne College. Facts of the case; Response of the college to a paper written by the student about his opinion on corporal punishment; Dismissal of the case by the federal court and the state court; Appeal made by the student; Decision made by the state appeals court on the case.

The article discusses the McAdoo v. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill court case. It states that Michael McAdoo, student at the university, took help from his former tutor regarding footnotes in a paper. It mentions that he was found guilty of plagiarism by the university's court. It highlights that appeals court of North Carolina ruled that the plaintiff didn't suffer from a sanction which didn't allow him to play football.

The article discusses a court case in which the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Philosophy was accused of discrimination due to a student's disability. A professor reportedly denied a student of a reasonable accommodation by denying a request for a grade of "Incomplete" and a request for submission of papers beyond the semester's end. The student's civil action against the university was later dismissed.

The article discusses court case concerning plagiarism. It mentions that the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana has refused in part and granted in part Purdue University's motion to terminate Junhyuk Park's 14th Amendment equal protection and due process claims. It notes that Park who is doctoral student has passed a required paper only to be detected to have several instances of plagiarism.

The article discusses several court cases in the U.S. It mentions a case of an international graduate student who received an "F" in two of his classes which indicates that most of his term papers were plagiarized. It also examines the case death of two students Kristine Hansen and Joshua Rau following an accident that involves a snowmobile on the lake at Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences wherein the college claimed that the property was outside their jurisdiction.

The article discusses a court case wherein the Michigan Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the trial court that claimed that a Michigan State University (MSU)police incident report in East Lansing was exempt from disclosure under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In State News v. Mich. State Univ., the university paper "State News" appealed the case after being dismissed by a trial court. The university refused to hand over the police report under the FOIA's privacy exemption.

The article focuses on the lawsuit being filed by the family of a young college student who drowned after a night of drinking. Jared Dion, a student at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Wisconsin, took one of the university's Safe Ride Program buses from the campus into the city's bar district where he apparently fell into the Mississippi River and drowned after a night of drinking. The family claims that the city is at fault for not taking preventive measures after the previous deaths at its Riverside Park. Dion's family also claims the university encouraged binge drinking by allowing the school paper to run advertisements from bars and by running the Safe Ride Program, which provides buses between the bars and the campus.

Reports that an ex-faculty adviser to the Central Missouri State University student newspaper in Warrensburg filed a lawsuit against the school's governing board and president. Barbara Lach-Smith's claim that she lost her job after the paper exposed a golden parachute contract for the outgoing president; President Bobby Patton's order for the reclassification of Lach-Smith's position and search for a replacement.

The article comments on the trustee election at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in which the official nominee was defeated by an insurgent conservative candidate, John Steel. It explores the motivation and concerns of the alumni who nominated Steel by petition. An overview of the anti-traditional and questionable actions taken by Dartmouth College is provided. It offers information on the lawsuit filed by the college against the weekly paper launched by conservative students in the campus. Details of the struggle to challenge liberalism on the campus are also presented.