Timothy M. Burke, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com On January 12, 2026, Alpha Sigma Phi issued the following press release announcing actions it was prepared to take against some of its former undergraduate members implicated in a hazing incident that caused...

Megan Suckow,1 Fraternal Law Partners, megan.suckow@manleyburke.com In November 2025, rather than target only those individual chapters accused of any sort of wrongdoing, Indiana University (“IU”) imposed broad, system-wide restrictions on all twenty-seven (27) fraternities recognized by its Interfraternity Council (“IFC”)....

Timothy M. Burke, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com On January 14, 2026, Federal District Judge A. Edmond Sargus[1] issued a Preliminary Injunction ordering Ohio State University (OSU) to expunge any mention of involuntary disenrollment from Plaintiff Guy Christensen's academic transcript and...

Haellie M. Gordon, Fraternal Law Partners, hgordon@manleyburke.com On the evening of November 19, 2021, Ethan Cao (“Mr. Cao”), a Michigan State University student and former Pi Alpha Phi member, attended a party with other fraternity members intended to celebrate the...

  Timothy M. Burke and Haellie M. Gordon, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com and hgordon@manleyburke.com   The litigation regarding Kappa Kappa Gamma’s (“Kappa”) decision to admit a transgender student identifying as female into its University of Wyoming chapter continues before the...