Lawsuits All Around Week in Education

MIKE LACHANCE AUG 12, 2023 8:00 AM

Oberlin College and Harvard had a kind of rough week.

• Oberlin College Sues Insurers For Refusing To Cover $36 Million It Paid Gibson’s Bakery For Defamation And Other Torts (Update)
• Harvard Loses $15 Million Insurance Claim For Legal Fees In Famous Race Discrimination Case, Appeals Ct Calls Arguments “Gaslighting”

Lawsuits are flying every which way.

• Penn State Prof Sues School for Allegedly ‘Discriminating Against Him for Being White’
• Lawsuit To Stop De-Naming of Middlebury College ‘Mead Chapel’ Can Go Forward, VT Judge Rules
• Southern Illinois Student to Receive $80K After Suing for Free Speech Violations

Big dollars are involved.

• U. of Delaware Settles for Millions With Thousands of Students Who Sued for COVID Tuition Reimbursement

More legal news.

• American Bar Association Pushing Diversity for Recruiting at Law Firms
• California Supreme Court: No Right to In-Person Cross-Examination of Accuser During Campus Sexual Assault Proceedings

The left is losing their minds over this.

• New College of Florida Board of Trustees Begins Process of Eliminating Gender Studies Program
• Woke Professors Reportedly Fleeing Florida Universities in Protest

This is such a bizarre story.

• Self-Described ‘Marxist’ Head of the American Library Association is Surprised by Backlash
• American Library Association’s Marxist New President Galvanizes Opposition

Oh my…

• University of Michigan Threatens to Replace Grad Student Workers on Strike

What did the horse do?

• Washington & Lee University Cancels Robert E. Lee’s Horse

So absurd.

• Profs Suggest Mass Shootings Are Linked to ‘Structural Racism’

Really?

• Harvard University Encourages Grad Students to Sign up for Food Stamps

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