Fraternal Law Conference November 5-6, 2010

Please return this form to Bonnie Hill, Fraternal Law, 225 West Court Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The full day session will begin at 9:00 on Friday and the half-day session on Saturday ends at Noon. Who should attend? Fraternity officers, council...
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SIX SORORITY MEMBERS AT RUTGERS ARRESTED FOR HAZING

Daniel McCarthy, Manley Burke Six members of the Sigma Gamma Rho chapter at Rutgers University were arrested and charged with aggravated hazing in January.  According to published reports, members of the chapter beat and belittled pledges for a period of...
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UPDATE ON BERKELEY ZONING CASE

Jim Ewbank After the temporary restraining order was denied, the Plaintiffs began serving summons on the Chapters and House Corporations.  As of February 15, 2010, less than ½ have been properly served. Jim Ewbank of Ewbank & Byrom, P.C. in...
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SIGMA CHI CHAPTER AT ARIZONA STATE SUED

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com On February 1, 2010, a lawsuit1 was filed against “the Sigma Chi Fraternity at Arizona State University” and that Chapter’s House Corporation, along with two specifically named members of the Chapter and 100 John Does. ...
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SUIT AGAINST AKA, INDIVIDUALS DISMISSED; APPEAL FILED

Daniel McCarthy, Manley Burke Judge Natalia M. Combs Greene of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit brought by individual members of Alpha Kappa Alpha against AKA, the AKA Educational Advancement Foundation and twenty-four individuals.1  As...
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CENSUS BUREAU STARTS COUNTING

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Between April 1st and May 21st, the United States Census Bureau will be conducting the portion of its Census enumeration that concentrates on counting college students living on or around campus.  This will be the...
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FRATERNITY AND SORORITY COALITION ASSESSMENT PROJECT

Eric Freeman, North-American Interfraternity Conference, Inc. & Arthur F. Hoge III, Mee Mee Hoge & Epperson PLLP The Greek trade associations that developed the Fraternity and Sorority Coalition Assessment Project created a process that reviews the overall health of a fraternity/sorority...
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