A recent Supreme Court ruling in a lawsuit concerning sex discrimination in corporate promotion decisions had circumstances similar to those in academic discrimination litigation, and may make it easier for college faculty to bring discrimination cases against colleges and universities. (MSE)

In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court is requiring the University of Pennsylvania to give faculty peer-review documents to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for its investigation into a sex discrimination case. Academics fear infringement of academic freedom and privacy. (MSE)

This chapter on higher education reviews and discusses court cases dealing with organization and administration, property, buildings, liability, aid to private education, faculty, student rights, discrimination, and intercollegiate athletics. (DW)

This edition of the yearbook includes all cases relevant to elementary and secondary education decided during the 1976 calendar year and reported in the General Digest as of March 1977, as well as any 1975 cases that were not reported in the 1976 yearbook. The book provides a comprehensive and objective summary and analysis of state supreme court…

During 1973, the broad issues characterizing the majority of court decisions concerning school employees were the constitutional and statutory rights of teachers and the relationship between these rights and the authority of the employer to act. Due process, both procedural and substantive, continues to receive extensive court consideration along…