CASE NAME: Letter re: Dierks School District, No. 07231209 (OCR 07/18/25).
CASE NAME: Letter re: Dierks School District, No. 07231209 (OCR 07/18/25).
The American Bar Association promulgates model ethics rules that require attorneys to adhere to certain professional standards in the practice of law. The ABA recently published an advisory ethics opinion addressing the ethical implications of lawyers’ use of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI. While framed around the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the opinion offers principles that are instructive well beyond the legal profession, especially for disability services and compliance.
Professional education programs, from law schools and medical schools to counseling programs and accounting programs, often require students to adhere to professionalism standards that include subjective components as well as to conventional objective academic and conduct standards as a condition of advancement and continued enrollment. An ongoing lawsuit tests the relationship between discipline for alleged professionalism violations and the prohibition against disability discrimination in higher education.
INDIANAPOLIS — When students don’t know where their next meal will come from or if they’ll have a bed to sleep that night, it has a significant impact on their success. In fact, three in five students experience basic needs insecurity related to food and/or housing and 14% experience homelessness, according to Anne E. Lundquist, Director of The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs at Temple University, where she›s also Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Health and Population Science in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. And 79% of student respondents to The Hope Center Student Basic Needs National Survey attributed basic needs insecurity as the main factor for previously stopping out of college, she added.
CASE NAME: Letter re: Demopolis City Schools, No. 04-22-1723 (OCR 05/06/25).
CASE NAME: Letter re: Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, No. 15-25-1439 (12/02/25).
The U.S. Department of Education has unexpectedly called back dozens of civil rights staffers who had been sidelined earlier this year amid mass layoffs and court battles over the agency's workforce reductions. The move was first reported by NPR.
CASE NAME: Mezu-Ndubuisi v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al., No. 24-cv-31 (W.D. Wis. 11/14/25).
CASE NAME: Letter re: Blue Springs School District, No. 07241597 (OCR 09/25/25).
CASE NAME: Rheem v. UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals, No. 1:23-CV-00075 (M.D. Pa. 10/27/25).

