Gabriel Kelley was only 17 when he was found dead after hanging himself near the dormitories of his high school, the Texas Academy for Leadership in the Humanities in Beaumont on April 29.
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Manifesto leads to suspension, lawsuit against school
Distributing fliers got a Montclair High School student quickly grounded by his principal.
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Maryland teen files $2.6 million claim
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education and a student newspaper reporter are currently facing a $2.6 million libel suit filed by the family of a former student who claims a quote attributed to him was so damaging to his reputation he had to change schools.
Congress schedules hearings on campus crime legislation
The House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education,Training and Life-Long Learning will be hearing testimony July 17 regardingHouse Bill 715, which would close loopholes in federally mandated campuscrime reporting.
Ohio Supreme Court opens campus disciplinary records
The Student Press Law Center, a nonprofit organization that provides legal help to student journalists around the country, says that an Ohio Supreme Court decision yesterday should help unlock the door to previously secret campus court proceedings and is advising college reporters to press school officials for more information.
Ohio Supreme Court rules that campus court records are open
The Ohio Supreme Court today ruled that universitydisciplinary records are not protected from disclosure by federallaw.
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic … and Parking Tickets
Should the public have the right to know that a University of Maryland basketball player owes thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets?
Australian students lose battle over right to print shoplifting "how-to" manual
Four former editors of an Australian collegenewspaper have lost an appeal that claimed a tongue-in-cheek articlethey published about shoplifting in 1995 was protected speech.
First Circuit grants rehearing in ad rejection case
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, today, granted apetition to rehear a case that student journalism groups had warned could have ripped the heart out of scholastic journalism programs in New England and potentially around the country.