Mackenzie Becker On September 25, 2000, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled on the case reported in the September 2000 Fraternal Law involving private universities and the extent to which courts can intervene in the disciplinary proceedings of private...

Timothy M. Burke, Manley & Burke On September 27, 1997, Scott Krueger, an 18 year old freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died from an alcohol related incident  in  the  Phi  Gamma Delta Fraternity house where he was living....

Barbara Schwartz Bromberg, Thompson, Hine & Flory, LLP. Cincinnati, Ohio Introduction Two popular programs sponsored by many fraternal foundations are the maintenance of an "aid to needy members" fund, which is often named after a significant person in the fraternal...

Timothy M. Burke, Manley & Burke The Supreme Court of Iowa recently issued a well-crafted decision1 carefully distinguishing between the liability of a fraternity and a wrongdoing member. The decision also placed at least some responsibility on a decedent for...