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94 First Nations Bands Join Day Scholars Lawsuit

94 First Nations Bands Join Day Scholars Lawsuit by pmnationtalk on March 15, 201630 Views Date Posted: 2016-03-14 | The opt-in period is over and it is clear that the Day Scholars Class Action has strong support all across Canada. 94 separate bands have come forward to be included in the lawsuit representing every province where an Indian Residential School was located. Launched in 2012 by the …


California Law School Defends Itself Against Claims It Fed Prospective Students ‘Damn Lies’ and Bogus Statistics

On Monday, lawyers for Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL), were in court to defend the school against allegations it manipulated post-graduation statistics. That’s noteworthy as it’s the first case to go to trial accusing a law school of intentionally using inflated post-graduation employment figures and salaries in order to defraud applicants. The case centers on Anna Alaburda, a 37-year- …


UC-Berkeley Students Sue Google, Alleging Their Emails Were Illegally Scanned

A sign outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in 2015. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Four students and alumni from the University of California-Berkeley have sued Google in federal court, alleging that the company — which runs the university’s email accounts — illegally intercepted and scanned emails for advertising purposes without students’ knowledge or consent. Google’s Gmail …


NCAA Appeals Class-Action Ruling in Scholarship Cases

General view of the NCAA logo. (Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports) 255 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN COMMENT EMAIL MORE The NCAA and 11 major conferences on Friday night began the process of asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a recent ruling in which a federal district judge granted class-action status to a pair of lawsuits challenging the NCAA’s current limits on the …