Facing a potential civil rights lawsuit, the West Covina Unified school board delayed Tuesday taking any action on the evaluation and possible dismissal of district Superintendent Liliam Leis Castillo. The board was scheduled to evaluate Castillo's performance amid reports that it is considering a possible $375,000 buyout of her contract. Board members will take up the matter again at their meeting tonight.
The Justice Department has joined an employee whistle-blower lawsuit against Education Management Corp., a for-profit college company that until recently was run by former Maine Gov. John McKernan. The lawsuit alleges that Pittsburgh-based Education Management illegally paid recruiters based on the number of students they enrolled, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday. The government, in most cases, forbids such incentive compensation for colleges accepting federal aid because of concern the practice will encourage companies to enroll unqualified students.
cases at a glance ANTOINE CLEMONS, 34 Background: He is charged with felony eluding, driving while revoked and interference with official acts after a March 2008 incident where Clemons ran a red light and kept driving after police tried to stop him -- fleeing at up to twice the speed limit. During the chase, a passenger jumped out of the moving car. Clemons eventually left the vehicle and ran. Clemons' claims: After running for a block or two, he recognized the futility of attempting to avoid arrest. He stopped, turned around, knelt on the ground and placed his hands above his head. With "no legitimate reason," Dubuque Police Officer Brian Wullweber released a police dog and allowed it to "viciously" attack Clemons, biting him repeatedly on the left arm and left hip. As Clemons was comp...
A lawsuit challenging U.S. funding for human embryonic stem-cell studies was dismissed by a federal judge after an appeals court found the government-backed research is probably lawful. S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in Washington on Wednesday ended a lawsuit in which two doctors sought to block the U.S. Health and Human Services Department and the National Institutes of Health from spending federal funds on research involving human embryonic stem cells.
By J.R. Logan The Taos News
A common scenario in tax credit site management is the household that becomes uncommunicative at recertification time. Failure to recertify is one of the most common reasons for not renewing a tax credit household's lease. The nonrenewal procedure is a necessary step to ensure that the unit stays in compliance, but it can be a sensitive issue for all concerned. The best safeguard against objections to lease nonrenewal can be found in the lease itself. Tax credit leases include language or an addendum that specifically states the grounds to terminate the tenancy, including tax credit-specific ground. State that approximately 120 days prior to the expiration of the lease term, the owner will ask the resident to report his household income and provide information regarding the household an...
Invoking the imagery of a shipwreck, a federal judge has fined an Owings Mills-based lawyer $5,000 for pursuing an age discrimination long after it was clear he had no case. Attorneys are entitled, and sometimes even obligated, to sail into shallow waters as investigation and discovery reveal weaknesses in the factual and legal theories of a case," Judge James K. Bredar wrote in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. "However, once the ship has not just bumped a shoal or two, but instead has collided with rocks and begun to take on water, the voyage is over and counsel is required to drop his sails.
A landmark lawsuit that accuses the state of Colorado of failing to provide a quality education to all students is expected to go to trial today in Denver District Court. The manner in which the state finances public schools is not "thorough and uniform and particularly fails to meet the needs of the growing numbers of minorities, English Language Learners, those with severely disabling conditions, special needs and gifted learners and other underserved children," argues Children's Voices, a nonprofit school advocacy law firm representing parents and 21 school districts.
MADISON--West Salem Elementary School principal John Smalley received $140,000 to settle a lawsuit he brought against the school district after it put him on administrative leave for a domestic disturbance and investigated him for an alleged extra-marital affair.
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