Tim Burke, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com On March 2, the day that Miguel Cardona was sworn in as the new Secretary of the United States Department of Education, he received a letter signed by more than one hundred members of...

Tim Burke, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com After several significant victories challenging zoning ordinances that put the fate of fraternity houses under local zoning ordinances in the hands of local universities, fraternity house owners suffered a significant set-back in the Indiana...

Amy Hebbeler, Fraternal Law Partners, Amy.hebbeler@manleyburke.com A recent trend toward the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 has been for states to create state COVID-19 liability shields. Generally, these statutes prohibit an individual from holding a business civilly liable...

 Ilana Linder, Fraternal Law Partners, Ilana.linder@manleyburke.com In the January 2019 Fraternal Law newsletter, we reported on a new lawsuit that had been filed against the University of Virginia (UVA) by a predominately-Latina sorority, Sigma Lambda Upsilon (SLU).[1]In its original complaint,...

Tim Burke, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com On February 25, 2021, Carole J. Jones, the NPC Chairman, and Dani Weatherford, J.D., the NPC Chief Executive Officer, forwarded the following news release. We reprint it here because of the substantial attention now...

Tim Burke, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com Within the last month the families of Adam Oakes, a student at Virginia Commonwealth and Stone Foltz, a student at Bowling Green, have been left to mourn their deaths.  Both a deaths are being...