NIC Responds to 60 MINUTES Story

Tim Burke, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com  On Sunday November 28th 60 MINUTES featured story described the terrible alcohol fueled hazing related death of Sam Martinez.  It was a terrible tragedy.  The actions leading to his death violated the law, university rules...
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New Lawsuit Filed Alleging Hazing At Texas A&M

Tim Burke, Fraternal Law Partners, tburke@manleyburke.com  On October 18, 2021 a lawsuit was filed in the Harris County District Court in Texas on behalf of two Plaintiffs, students at Texas A&M University, who were pledges of the chapter of the...
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Indiana University Prevails in CrimsonCard Case

Ilana Linder, Fraternal Law Partners, Ilana.Linder@manleyburke.com In November 2020, Fraternal Law reported on a case that had been filed by individual students against Indiana University (“IU”) regarding IU’s tracking of those students’ movements using swipe date from their student ID...
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Supreme Court of the United States Declines to Hear Bloomington Zoning Case

Micah E. Kamrass, Fraternal Law Partners, MKamrass@Manleyburke.com In the September 2021 Edition of Fraternal Law, we reported that UJ-Eighty Corp., a fraternity house corporation that owns property in Bloomington, Indiana, petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to grant...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Amy M. Hebbeler, Fraternal Law Partners, Amy.hebbeler@Manleyburke.com Vaccine mandates are not new. As more mandates are being issued by employers and booster shots are becoming available, the vaccine mandates issue is back in the forefront. However, with booster shots and...
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