Deerfield Academy has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a former student who accused a former mathematics teacher at the prestigious private school of sexually abusing him. The victim, referred to in the lawsuit as “John Doe” and who was 14 at the time of the 1979 incident, filed it against Peter Hindle, who retired from Deerfield Academy in 2000 after working there for over four …
A new class action lawsuit contends Fort Lauderdale-based Keiser University is violating the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using automated dialing systems to call cellphone numbers registered with the National Do Not Call Registry as many as three times per day. According to the complaint filed by the Tallahassee firm of Dudley, Sellers, Healy & Heath, Keiser employs more than …
A former North Chicago High School science teacher will receive $115,000 as part of a settlement agreed to by North Chicago Community Unit School District 187’s oversight boards. The lawsuit, filed by longtime teacher Susan McGuire in August 2014, was one of three employment lawsuits filed against the district that point, at least in part, to performance reviews administered under the same …
Charles Araujo, center, talks about the perceived injustice he and his wife, Evelyn, left, believe to be in the charter school system Thursday. (Photo: Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger) Flanked by her friend Monica Cannon-Butler, Midtown resident Shmea Kelly stood outside of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s downtown Jackson office Wednesday watching as parents and children shouted from a …
The mother of a little girl arrested at her Murfreesboro elementary school earlier this year has filed a lawsuit against a city police officer. Elexecia Martin is demanding a jury trial after she says Officer Chrystal Templeton violated her daughter’s Fourth Amendment rights. It all began when video surfaced in April of two …
The School District of Lancaster was slapped with a class-action lawsuit Tuesday over its handling of older refugee students. The U.S. District Court suit claims the district steered students to a disciplinary high school, rather than enroll them at McCaskey High School. Six refugees, ages 17-21, are part of the lawsuit.
A Christian student group is suing North Carolina State University over a policy they say requires members to get a permit to talk to their classmates about Jesus. Grace Christian Life, a religious student group long recognized by the 35,000-student school in Raleigh, claimed in a federal suit that school officials barred members last September from evangelizing to people on campus. The …
A third federal lawsuit filed against Baylor University accuses the Waco, Texas-based school of creating a “hunting ground for sexual predators.” A former Baylor student identified as Jane Doe says in the lawsuit filed Monday that she was drugged and abducted from an off-campus residence …
A former Northwest Middle School coach is accused in a lawsuit of serving up a 14-year-old boy to a fellow teacher for sex. The mother of …
The parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are offering to settle their wrongful death lawsuit against Newtown and its school system for $5.5 million apiece.