More than 2,400 law professors sign letter urging Senate not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to U.S. Supreme Court
NEW YORK TIMES — More than 2,400 law school professors from schools across the country signed their name to a letter for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — For many borrowers expecting student debt relief from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, the latest set of federal data on applications provoked fears that they shouldn’t count on loan forgiveness.
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ABA JOURNAL — A U.S. district court has found that two graduates of a Massachusetts for-profit college have standing to challenge the U.S. Department of Education’s recent decision to delay implementation of the borrower defense regulation.
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ABA JOURNAL — The ABA delivered a letter to the committee urging them to delay the vote until “after an appropriate background check into the allegations made by professor Ford and others is completed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — The Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne Law will present its seventh biennial lecture on Friday, Oct. 5, featuring Spencer Overton, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
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UVA SCHOOL OF LAW — The Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law has collaborated with former Virginia Attorney General Anthony F. Troy to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court defending Virginia’s ban on uranium mining.
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UVA SCHOOL OF LAW — Leaders in criminal defense and a panel of several of Virginia’s wrongfully convicted men and women will participate in a Virginia Innocence Project Pro Bono Clinic fundraiser at the University of Virginia School of Law.
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UTAH BUSINESS — For a fourth consecutive year the number of graduates from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law who have passed the Utah Bar Exam has risen. Ninety percent of S.J. Quinney College of Law students who took the bar exam passed on their first try.
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TULANE UNIVERSITY — Media scholars, legal minds and reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post are among more than two dozen experts who will serve as panelists at a freedom of the press conference at Tulane University School of Law.
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — The Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI), at Syracuse University College of Law, will commemorate over 10 years of seeking justice and accountability for racially motivated crimes during the Civil Rights Era with an awards dinner on Saturday, September 29, 2018, at Syracuse University College of Law.
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