OPINION ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Jun 27, 2024 at 5:10 pm The former Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Conn. The justices threw out the company’s bankruptcy deal on Thursday. (Greg Patton via Shutterstock) The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of the opioid OxyContin, cannot…
(Photo by Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images) Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! It now seems likely that the Supreme Court’s Term will extend into July. Except for 2020 — even the Supreme Court gets a Covid mulligan — when’s the last…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Federal education spending would be slashed by 13% — or $11 billion — under a fiscal 2025 bill passed Thursday morning by the Republican-led House education appropriations subcommittee. For higher education, the GOP proposal would…
Newly released research highlights policy reforms and institutional support systems that target student fathers, particularly Black and brown fathers, in higher education. Dr. Brittani WilliamsThe nonprofit Generation Hope, which provides direct support and national advocacy for student parents in college, has released “EmpowerED Dads: Amplifying Voices, Advancing Higher Education for Student Fathers.” “Student fathers navigate…
VIEW FROM THE COURT By Mark Walsh on Jun 27, 2024 at 5:17 pm Thursday was the second of three opinion days this week as the court nears its summer recess. (Thomas Hawk via Flickr) The court’s press room is still buzzing this morning over Bloomberg’s scoop yesterday on the brief but mistaken posting of…
Yup. This is preferable! Life isn’t like television. Usually when you’re watching a show and someone launches a half-baked scheme, someone blurts out, “That so crazy, it just might work!” In real life, that phrase is a prequel to a really dumb conspiracy charge. For example, bribing a juror to get the ruling you want…
The rate of college freshmen returning for a second year is at a decade high. A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center noted that more than 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year. Done annually, the 2024 Persistence and Retention report shows the…
(Image via Getty) Last week, I realized I’d reached a key post-pandemic milestone: I was down to my last roll of cheap toilet paper, which I’d purchased in bulk online in an illogical fit of desperation in March 2020. Like so many others, I invested a lot in crappy toilet paper in the early days…
When Sister Dr. Christine De Vinne first came to Ursuline College, a private, Catholic institution in Pepper Pike, Ohio, she was a young woman studying math for her undergraduate degree. In 1996, she returned to campus as a dean, and, in 2015, she became president of her alma mater. It’s been over 50 years since…
You should not commit securities fraud. With that out of the way, if you DID want to commit some light securities fraud, the Supreme Court has good news for you! In a 6-3 opinion, the conservative majority ruled that when the SEC seeks civil penalties against someone participating in the securities industry, the agency must…