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A former Bullard school superintendent pled no contest in August to criminal charges that he violated the Texas Open Records Act.

The Virginia State Supreme Court agreed Sept. 4 to hear an appeal brought by a Virginia Tech administrator in her libel lawsuit against the student newspaper. The newspaper had identified the administrator as the "Director of Butt Licking."

A student at the University of Texas in Dallas is suing university officials, including the president, for continued harassment that he believes stemmed from views he expressed in two student publications.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has declared moot a case that seeks to open the presidential search process of state postsecondary institutions.

The Utah chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' efforts to open the presidential selection process at the University of Utah have been brought to a halt.

The university is appealing a November 1996 ruling by a U.S. District Court that agreed with a complaint from three students and declared the university's student fee system unconstitutional.

The Washtenaw County Circuit Court ruled in June that the University of Michigan must release records concerning an internal investigation of the school basketball program, including letters of reprimand from the university to a coach.

The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld in June a circuit court ruling that evaluations of a public school teacher had to be disclosed to the Ann Arbor News.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may be a champion of athletes, but when it comes to journalists, the NCAA appears to play a different game.

Despite little opposition from the state legislature, Gov. Jim Edgar vetoed a bill on Aug. 10 that would have guaranteed greater rights for high school student journalists in the state.