New regulations for Title IX sexual misconduct appeals were issued by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on May 5, 2020, which become effective August 14, 2020. The department issued its summary of “key provisions” in a press release on...
Continue Reading →Our higher education appeals practice is based largely on the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which guarantees that no person shall be deprived of ‘life, liberty or property without due process of law.” The murder of George Floyd is...
Continue Reading →As a student rights lawyer, we have recently had cases where a student is forced to abandon his dormitory room and, facing a closed university without classes to attend, may either seek a refund of prepaid dormitory fees and prepaid...
Continue Reading →Can you imagine the shock and disbelief at learning of your dismissal from medical school in the 3rd or 4th year, after incurring student loan debt of $250,000 to $400,000? Cohen & Duncan Attorneys, LLC accepts engagements from medical students throughout the...
Continue Reading →Our law firm, Cohen & Duncan Attorneys, LLC, has handled hundreds of academic appeals, with countless successful outcomes for our student clients. The student appeals we have handled include academic, disciplinary, and other types of appeals, such as working to...
Continue Reading →A student rights lawyer focuses on issues of school safety, discipline, special education and student civil rights. It has been more than 25 years since President Clinton signed the GUN-FREE SCHOOLS ACT law...
Continue Reading →A student at a public college or university likely enjoys student equal protection rights, under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in the context of the student’s treatment by the school in comparison with the school’s treatment of the...
Continue Reading →Schools in the “Old Days” conjured images of “reading, writing, arithmetic” and receiving School Discipline in the form of writing 100 times on the blackboard: “ I will not throw Spitballs.” Today’s default discipline recommendations are much harsher and much...
Continue Reading →As briefly mentioned in a January 25, 2019, posting on this site, proposed legislation has been introduced in the Missouri Legislature relating to Title IX Sexual Misconduct Complaints and Due Process. The proposed legislation restores the rights of the accused...
Continue Reading →Academic appeals may be justified in cases involving the refusal of a testing service to validate SAT or other standardized test results. Students in higher education assume that if they achieve a passing score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or other national...
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