Law firm sues former clients for legal fees, expenses | West Virginia Record

Ranson Law Offices seeks to recoup $8,600 from former WVU Tech students Teri Harrison and Alexis Cox in their Title IX suit.

Former Montgomery cop sues city for wrongful termination | West Virginia Record

WVU Tech student named in several civil rights-related lawsuits files one of his own over 2008 firing.

New life for lawsuit on grants to businesses | Tonawanda News

N.Y. appellate court grants reprieve to "Mother of All Lawsuits" filed by TEA Party activist James Ostrowski in 2008 challenging constitutionality of corporate welfare

Elkview woman awarded $7,500 in personal suit against WVU Tech | West Virginia Record

Source of alleged injury never revealed

Suit alleges brutality by Smithers police officers

CHARLESTON - A Fayette County man is alleging he was brutalized for no apparent reason by two police officers following a traffic stop in Smithers last year.

Michael Wallace filed suit against the city of Smithers on July 7. In his complaint filed in Kanawha Circuit Court, Wallace alleges that he was attacked, and later beaten by Smithers police officers W.R. Callison and A.E. Roberts in January 2008.

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Judge limits request for medical records in Kinser lawsuit

CHARLESTON -- Though a judge quashed a subpoena for a Kanawha County woman's entire medical history in a personal injury suit she filed against WVU Tech, he ordered she'll still have to turn over records related to treatment for her alleged injury.

Kanawha Circuit Judge Louis H. "Duke" Bloom on May 1 accepted the April 23 recommendation of Bruce Freeman that a subpoena WVU Tech's lawyers sent to Charleston Area Medical Center requesting the medical charts of Marilyn L. Kinser from her date of birth until March 6 be quashed. Bloom appointed Freeman as a special commissioner to conduct discovery on March 16 after Kinser's attorney, Shawn R. Romano, filed a motion to quash three days earlier.

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'White African-American' Suing N.J. Med School for Discrimination

Can a white guy be African-American?

Paulo Serodio says he is.

Born and raised in Mozambique and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, Serodio, 45, has filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey medical school, claiming he was harassed and ultimately suspended for identifying himself during a class cultural exercise as a "white African-American."

"I wouldn't wish this to my worst enemy," he said. "I'm not exaggerating. This has destroyed my life, my career."

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Are universities above the law?

by Peter Berkowitz

Three lawsuits--against Dartmouth College and Duke and Princeton universities--may be the best things to happen to higher education in decades. The Dartmouth suit, though recently withdrawn, focused attention on the role of alumni in college affairs. The Duke case raises the question of the extent to which courts will require universities to observe their own rules and regulations. The Princeton case puts at issue the enforceability of restricted gifts. All three expose the often opaque governing structures under which colleges and universities operate and bring into focus the need for transparency and accountability in higher education.More than the scope of universities' legal responsibilities is at stake here. That's because upholding the rule of law on campus can contribute to the reform of university governance--and the reform of university governance is an indispensable precondition for the restoration of a liberal education -worthy of the name.

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