BOSTON — A federal judge on Thursday rejected Brandeis University's bid to squash a lawsuit by a student disciplined under its sexual assault policies, ripping the Waltham university's approach to adjudicating such claims.
In an 89-page opinion supporting his decision to allow the lawsuit to move forward, U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV criticized Brandeis for "appear[ing] to have substantially impaired, if not eliminated, an accused student's right to a fair and impartial process."
BOSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is taking the U.S. Department of Education to federal court in an effort to force the government agency to cough up information about its student debt collection practices, especially as they relate to minority borrowers.
In a joint Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, the ACLU and the National Consumer Law Center note in their filing that they originally requested the release of Department of Education records last May.
