CAN A COLLEGE BE LIABLE FOR SUICIDE?

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Elizabeth Shin was a troubled young Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student.  She suffered from repeated mental health episodes.  The first occurred in the spring semester of her freshman year when she overdosed on Tylenol...
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ALPHA EPSILON PI FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION

Robert Manley, Manley Burke Alpha Epsilon Pi has recently initiated two lawsuits to defend the freedom of association of undergraduates who want to join their Fraternity.  One is against City University of New York in connection with its branch campus...
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REAL ESTATE TAXATION ON NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com In 1997, Case Western Reserve University leased the Magnolia House on its campus to the Zeta Pi Chapter of Alpha Phi Fraternity House Corporation.  The University had little reason to believe that unlike the rest...
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VOLUNTEER PROTECTION ACT SAVES FRATERNITY VOLUNTEERS

Robert Manley, Manley Burke McDaniel Brookman was a prospective member of Alpha Eta Delta of Chi Psi Fraternity at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.  He was standing on the balcony of the fraternity house when the balcony collapsed. ...
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DEFERRED RUSH: A VIOLATION OF EQUAL PROTECTION?

James Harvey “Our Constitution …neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” 1 A number of universities have imposed so-called “deferred rush” on their Greek-letter groups, under which recruitment of new members is banned until the second academic term or later. ...
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