National Jurist - January 2008 - (Page 10) NEWS continued from previous page… Ave Maria School of Law has not established compliance with Standard 405(a), regarding the obligation of a law school to establish and maintain conditions adequate to attract and retain a competent faculty.” Dobranski said that faculty members filed a complaint with the ABA over a year ago. Safraneck, a tenured professor, was suspended with a recommendation Dobranski for termination and barred from campus at the end of July. Lyons and Pucillo were denied tenure and placed on administrative leave of absence in August. activity that includes racketeering, conspiracy and abuse of their offices “to enrich themselves at the expense of the students.” The suit also seeks a restraining order to prevent the school from filing bankruptcy, a full accounting of financial records and other action to protect students. The school’s founder, dean, president and majority stockholder, Paul Hendrick, is listed among the defendants. Stockholder and chairman of the board of directors, Wayne Shelton, and Jarrod Turner, assistant dean and minority stockholder, are also listed. The school opened in 2005 and currently has 200 students. The suit claims Hendrick and Turner worked together to delay distribution of student loans for living expenses so they could invest the money and earn interest. Hendrick declined to comment on the lawsuit. es, phone numbers and passwords were a few items hackers had access to, though school officials said they have no evidence that the intruders actually downloaded or acquired any of the information. The site, which collects information from would-be applicants who want information about Duke from the admissions office, was taken offline. While investigating the incident, school officials found that a second database could have also been accessed by hackers, potentially affecting another 1,900 people who filed online admissions applications. In his e-mail to affected applicants and students, William J. Hoye, associate dean of admissions, wrote that the school is taking all possible steps to address the breach and prevent it from happening again. According to the law school, other databases, personal information about current students, employees and alumni, were unaffected by the incident. Law students file suit against administration Students at the American Justice School of Law in Kentucky filed a $120 million lawsuit in November against the school’s administration, claiming the school is being mismanaged and that accreditation is unlikely, according to the associated press. The suit claims the school’s top two administrators have engaged in criminal Duke law warned about ID theft Approximately 1,400 Duke Law School applicants and a few current students were warned about identify theft concerns after hackers broke into the law school’s Web site. Social Security numbers, home address- Correction A story in the November 2007 issue of The National Juruist incorrectly reported that John Marshall Law School in Chicago opened the first law school clinic dedicated to veterans issues in the United States. We apologize for the error. AutoAdmit.com lawsuit revisited Anthony Ciolli breathed a sigh of relief after plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed him from a lawsuit filed by two Yale Law School students. Ciolli, AutoAdmit’s former chief educational director, was named in the suit filed in June in the U.S. District Court of Connecticut, along with more than two dozen others who allegedly used pseudonyms and posted the Yale students’ photos as well as slanderous remarks about them on AutoAdmit’s online law school discussion forum. Marc Randazza, a Barry Law professor whose firm, Weston, Garrou, DeWitt & Walter Attorneys at Law, represented Ciolli, said he thought there was something strange underneath the surface of the case, especially with Ciolli being named as a defendant. AutoAdmit’s founder, Jarret Cohen, was not named in the suit. “I am pleased to see that the plaintiffs have voluntarily dismissed me from this suit,” Ciolli said in a statement posted on Randazza’s blog, “The Legal Satyricon.” “Including me in the suit in the first place was legally unsupportable.” Ciolli said that prior to being named in the suit, he fully sympathized with the plaintiffs and did everything he could to help the plaintiff’s position. “I persuaded the operator of the T14 website to take down that site,” he said. “I clashed with AutoAdmit’s owner in a failed attempt to convince him to comply with the plaintiff’s requests. When he refused, I took the only action that remained open to me — I resigned from my job in protest.” Ciolli, who lost a job offer with Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge after graduation from Penn Law, said he is now focused on his career and living his life in a positive manner. “As time passes and more facts come out, everyone will come to realize that I not only did nothing wrong, but that I extended myself beyond my responsibilities in order to altruistically do right,” he said. “Nevertheless, I am proud of what I tried to do to make this situation better — even if neither of the victims yet appreciate my efforts.” 10 THE NATIONAL JURIST January 2008 http://AutoAdmit.com
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