Duke University

By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) The suit is about the violations of the plaintiffs civil rights by Duke University, DU Medical Center, Durham City, Durham Police Department, a DNA testing lab and numerous individuals including Duke's President Richard Brodhead.

By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) And keep something else in mind: Duke University has asserted the suits don’t have merit as far as it, its trustees and many of its employees, including President Brodhead, bearing any culpability for events related to the hoax, the frame-up attempt and the ongoing cover-up.

By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) I have not posted here in quite some time, but I continue to follow events in the aftermath of the lacrosse scandal. I have no connection to Duke University, but I have four children in and around college age (one 2007 graduate, two enrolled and a HS junior) and am very much interested in the qu...

By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) Today, at The Volakh Conspiracy Northwestern University Law Professor Jim Lindgren posts extracts from KC's post and adds some comments of his own. What does the inclusion of these unsourced ramblings say about the editorial policies of the Duke University Press journal Social Text? . . .

By JWM Readers Note: When I refer in this post to the Durham Police Department, I have in mind only certain police officers and their supervisors up the chain of command to Deputy Police Chief Ron Hodge and the Chief during the Duke lacrosse frame-up attempt, Steve Chalmers, now retired. John

By JWM This post - Duke lowers bar and stumbles - includes some of my thoughts on the motion as well as the much more expert thinking of attorneys Paul Mirangoff (blogs at Powerline.com) and Jason Trumpbour ( spokesperson for Friends of Duke University and University of Maryland Law School profe...

By JWM Indoctrinate U will be shown Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 PM in Reynolds Auditorium in Duke University’s Bryan Student Center. The Bryan Student Center is beside Duke Chapel and next to a well-lighted public parking deck. A map is here. Indoctrinate U’s showing at Duke is sponsored by Duke Students...

By JWM An H-S story today under Stevenson’s byline, "Ex-Duke coach plans slander suit," reports former Duke Men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler’s plans to file a slander suit against Duke University because of remarks made by senior vice-president John Burness.