Micah Kamrass, Manley Burke, mkamrass@manleyburke.com Three separate federal cases have emerged where students are challenging university disciplinary action taken against them on the grounds of due process violations. Interestingly, within the last two months, all three cases have survived attempts...

David Westol, Limberlost Consulting, Inc. A lawsuit with two interesting aspects that involve a chapter of a men’s national fraternity has been filed in the U.S. Federal District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit, which was filed...

Amy Hebbeler, Manley Burke, amy.hebbeler@manleyburke.com In light of some cities making it more difficult for fraternities and sororities to have fraternity houses, especially after the fraternity or sorority has lost recognition by a college or university, one city has made...

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com The issue of transgender rights has been a rapidly evolving one.  As Fraternal Law was preparing to go to press, the United States Supreme Court, on March 6th, changed things again.  The Gloucester County School...

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com On March 12, 2017, reprising the role of Special Counsel to the US Army, Joseph Welsh, whose retort "have you left no sense of decency?" helped bring an end to the McCarthy era, Harvard Professor...

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com “Are you now or have you ever been a member of ... ?" Those words, more than half century ago, were heard at the height of the McCarthy era from members of Congress questioning witnesses...