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Texas’ ‘King of Torts,’ Joe Jamail, Dies at 90
Dec 29 2015 // Joe Jamail, the Texas billionaire who became the richest practicing attorney in the U.S. after winning jury verdicts in civil lawsuits that included a $10.5 billion award for Pennzoil Co. in its landmark case against...
Distillery Drops Trademark Suit Against University of Kentucky
Dec 23 2015 // Kentucky Mist Moonshine has dropped a federal lawsuit against the University of Kentucky over trademarks. James Francis, a lawyer for the eastern Kentucky distillery, tells the Lexington Herald-Leader the two sides are...
Boston Chipotle Shuts Down After Scores of BC Students Get Sick
Dec 8 2015 // Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., reeling from an E. coli outbreak that has sickened dozens of customers, closed a restaurant in Boston following complaints of “gastrointestinal symptoms” from scores of Boston...
Judge Suspends Lawsuit Against U. of Oklahoma over Stolen Nazi Art
Dec 8 2015 // A federal judge has suspended activity in a lawsuit that challenges the ownership of a painting that hangs at a University of Oklahoma art gallery as negotiations continue with a French woman who claims the artwork was...
Official Files $123K Claim Following Arizona University Mascot Pounce
Dec 7 2015 // A suburban Phoenix official filed a claim against Arizona State University, saying the school mascot seriously injured his back when the costumed character playfully leaped on him at a football game two months after...
Veteran Files Suit Against Oregon College for Discrimination
Dec 3 2015 // A retired Army officer who worked in the ROTC office at the University of Portland in Oregon has filed a lawsuit claiming his co-workers discriminated against him because of disabilities he suffered in combat in Iraq and...
Kent State University’s Insurance Studies Program Sees First Graduates
Dec 1 2015 // Salem, OH, December 1, 2015 – Kent State University announced that it recently graduated the first of its majors in its Insurance Studies bachelor’s degree program. Kent State University’s Salem Campus...
Report: Penn State’s Sandusky Settlements Total Nearly $93M
Nov 30 2015 // Penn State settled with six more victims or accusers of Jerry Sandusky, according to a new audit that puts the school’s total payout in the child sex abuse scandal at nearly $93 million. The university’s...
Utah Man Sues College Over Same-Sex Marriage Discrimination
Nov 24 2015 // A Utah man says the college where he worked discriminated against him because he was in a same-sex marriage, denying the couple benefits and forcing him out of a job. Dustin Kennedy said in a new federal lawsuit that an...
Texas Insurance Trade Group Awards Scholarships to 17 Students
Nov 19 2015 // Seventeen students at three Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $34,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students attend St. Mary’s...
Student Sues Pacific University in Oregon for $3M Following Rape
Nov 19 2015 // A 20-year-old Pacific University student who says another student raped her has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Oregon university. The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit says the rape occurred after both students...
Fraternity Files $25M Defamation Suit Against Rolling Stone
Nov 13 2015 // The fraternity that was the focus of a debunked Rolling Stone article about a gang rape filed a $25 million lawsuit against the magazine Monday, saying the piece made the frat and its members “the object of an...
Official Files $123K Claim Following Arizona University Mascot Pounce
Nov 13 2015 // A suburban Phoenix official filed a claim against Arizona State University, saying the school mascot seriously injured his back when the costumed character playfully leaped on him at a football game two months after...
University of Oregon Sued by 2 Ex-Counseling Center Workers
Nov 13 2015 // Two former University of Oregon counseling center employees say they were shunned, criticized and threatened with dismissal at the UO after they blew the whistle on superiors who had seized a student’s therapy...
Supreme Court to Review Religious Groups’ Claims Over Obamacare Birth Control Benefit
Nov 6 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court scheduled a new showdown over Obamacare and religious rights, agreeing to hear contentions by faith-based groups that they shouldn’t have to facilitate what they consider to be immoral...
Distillery Sues University Over Word ‘Kentucky’
Nov 5 2015 // Kentucky Mist Moonshine is suing the University of Kentucky over use of the word “Kentucky” on clothing. The company filed suit Nov. 2 in U.S. District Court. The Lexington Herald-Leader says the suit was filed...
Ex-Instructor Gets Nearly $5M Award in Missouri Discrimination Case
Nov 4 2015 // A St. Louis County jury has awarded nearly $5 million to a former Harris-Stowe State University instructor who argued the historically black school discriminated against her because she is white. Jurors returned the $4.85...
AIG, South Carolina’s Clemson University to Develop Risk & Analytics Center
Nov 3 2015 // American International Group, Inc. has announced an initial $4 million investment with Clemson University to develop a risk engineering and analytics center and to establish the Robert Benmosche Endowed Professorship in...
Study Shows Pay Gaps for Women, Minorities at U. of Missouri
Oct 26 2015 // Female faculty members at the University of Missouri tend to make $16,000 less than their male counterparts, while racial and ethnic minority faculty members also make $16,000 less than their majority counterparts,...
Distillery, University of Kentucky Clash Over Use of Word ‘Kentucky’
Oct 26 2015 // The owners of Kentucky Mist distillery say University of Kentucky attorneys have sent them a letter asserting the school owns the rights to the word “Kentucky,” at least on clothing. The Mountain Eagle reports...
