Topic
Hazing
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Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
Ohio State Fires Band Director For Alleged Environment Of Ongoing Sexual Harassment
Ohio State University (“University”) fired the director of its marching band following a two month investigation into an alleged culture of sexual harassment and alcohol abuse in which student band…
EvidenceProf Blog
EvidenceProf in the New York Times: Baruch College Hazing Death & the Admissibility of Computer Animations
By Colin Miller
On December 9th, freshman, Chun Hsien Deng died during at fraternity hazing ritual at Pennsylvania's Baruch College. According to a New York Times article by Ariel Kaminer,Charges had been expected to be…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“It was clear early on they had already made up their mind.”
San Jose State University has sent three students packing and a fourth to counseling for their alleged crimes against their then-freshman classmate. As San Jose Mercury News's Tracy Kaplan reports:…
The Faculty Lounge
A Different Take on the Miami Dolphins Bullying Case…
I rarely read an article and become so troubled by it that I feel compelled to draft a response. But in the case of recent bullying allegations associated with the…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
NFL PLayer Walks Away From His Job
In the NFL, the older players haze the rookies. It has been that way at least as long as there has been an NFL. Like most rookies on the Miami…
Education Law Prof Blog
Hazing Comes to High School
By Derek Black
Scholars like Gregory Parks have done extensive work on hazing in higher education, see, e.g.. An unfortunate new field may be opening for them: high school. The Seattle Times reports…
The Right Coast
“Butt chugging” violates God’s law, student says
There s no butts about it. A University of Tennessee student who allegedly binged on alcohol by butt chugging denied that he was hospitalized for the dangerous activity, claiming he…
Texas Injury Law Blog
Settlement reached in wrongful death lawsuit over hazing death of UT student
By Bryan Fears
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the 2006 wrongful death of 18-year-old University of Texas fraternity hazing victim. The victim, Tyler Cross, died after falling from the…
Legal Profession Blog
Where’s Bluto?
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a judgment in a case brought by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity against the University of Iowa and its Dean of Students. The fraternity had…
TortsProf Blog
$16.2 Million Default Award in Hazing Death Lawsuit
The family of a Marietta, Georgia, college student, Tyler Cross, who died in an alleged frat hazing at the University of Texas was awarded $16.2 million in a default judgment…