The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/lawsuit/)
Two basketball players from Brown University filed a class action lawsuit against the Ivy League on March 7, arguing that Cornell University and other Ivy League institutions violate antitrust laws in their refusal to offer athletic scholarships.
On Tuesday, the Second Circuit decided to uphold the district court’s decision from last January to dismiss a disability bias lawsuit alleged by a former Cornell employee.
A class-action lawsuit filed on Jan 9 accuses Cornell and 15 other universities across the nation of financial aid collusion.
After months of hearings, Cornell student Osai Egharevba ’21 pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment.
Ithaca Police Department officer Christine Barksdale filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Ithaca on Feb. 4, citing a confidentiality violation when the city motioned to remove her as senior investigator in January 2020.
The lawsuit against Cornell over the death of Antonio Tsialas ’23 will proceed, a Tompkins County judge ruled Sept. 4. In the almost 11 months since the tragedy, the University has shared few updates on the circumstances surrounding the first-year’s death or the investigations launched immediately after.
After ICE’s latest announcement on Monday restricting international students, campus organizations join together to circulate petitions and take action against the decision.
In her most recent email to the student body, President Martha E. Pollack criticized ICE’s restrictions on international students and informed the community of actions the University is taking to shift ICE’s ruling.
A class action lawsuit against Cornell is one of several suits against universities that say distance learning isn’t a suitable replacement for in-person instruction.
The parents of deceased freshman Antonio Tsialas ’23 have filed a lawsuit against Cornell University, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Cornell students. The family is seeking compensation for the pain “suffered by their son … prior to his death.”