<p>Yes, you can sue a college. And, yes, many, many people, companies, government have done so successfully. And there have beeen cases when a college has stepped over the line of what is allowed, or have illegal policies in place that have not been challenged. Believe me Penn State, for example, is getting sued up the whazooii by a whole list of people. </p>
<p>Schools make mistakes when the make their interdisciplinary rulings at times. In fact they do it a lot, because they are not subject to the letter of the law the same way other organizations may be. They do not have to have a legal conviction, go through the legal system to assess a penalty. So when you become part of the school community, you are subject to their rules that may not be issues outside of the school. The school has a right to assess penalities on you as a student, an employee that would not exist outside of their world. It’s part of what you agree to , when you become part of that instutuion. But there is a gray area that exists between the school’s rules and the legal system, and that is where there is room for a law suit. THere have been many times when a school has had to back pedal and reverse their penalities and decisions when issues are taken to the public court or the mention thereof is made. A lot of times, schools will bent or not enforce there rules just because they do not want the adverse publicity on a matter or it just isn’t worth it if someone threatens a fight. Getting a lawyer familiar with this arena can often get things straightened out without a law suit which schools do not want. The school attorney will often look at a situation and put up the white flag.</p>
<p>Al ot of times schools can be “bullies” about their disciplinary penalties and processes because they do not have to notify the parents most of the time as students are adults (except for paying) and these young adults are not seasoned fighter, and will often ignore summons, or meekly accept consequiences, especially if it looks like parents won’t be notified. A friend of mine got a fine that had to be paid from her son’s school and when she called, was told that she could not be told what the bill was for under the law, but yes, she was down as the bill payer for school expenses and she therefore was responsible for it with all the things that go with that responsibility. If she wanted to know anything more than the amount and payment arrangements, she had to talk to her son. Yeah. When she found out about it and went after the school, the matter was dropped. It was on thing to hit a stupid young adult kid, but taking on a fully informed, experienced, enraged parent was a whole other issue. </p>
<p>So what do you do when drugs are found in your kid’s dorm room and both roommates get the hit for it, and your kids swears it’s not his, and you believe him. Like he’s clean for drugs, has never had the history, and a little sniffing around shows that the roommate is a known druggie. The problem is if your kids is on financial aid and the matter goes outside of the school, he can lose all rights to current and future aid, not to mention other criminal penalites that may be on the table. With that info, a scared kid might sign a statement of blame and take the internal consequences and not even tell a parent. Yeah, I’ve seen this. But Mama and Papa Grizzley may not be so easily intimidated and not like the idea of the matter on their kid’s college record with consequences, though not so sever, from that and also may not be so impressed with the way the school investigated and doled out the consequences. They are not specialists in criminal investigation, and yes, they make mistakes some times. Usually, if the kid is guility , he gets a pretty good pass if it is handled internally and kept quiet, but innocent ones get the shaft since no legal or court system in this country would take the evidence that the college used or the methodology. </p>
<p>So if your kid gets into trouble, he should tell you. The chances are good that he is not skilled and savvy enough to handle the disciplinary process at the school, and in exchange of the matter being taken care of quickly and quietely, can take the rap for something he did not do, or take a larger penalty to avoid the mess. Sometimes that is the best way to go, but sometimes not, and an experienced adult should be involved. Sometimes one parent gets involved, makes enough noise, his kid gets off the hook, and the rest take the penalities. I’ve personally seen this. And, yes, it’'s usually the poor kid with parents not so savvy that is on the hook.</p>
). When the Internet started, few companies depended on Internet Search results to conduct their business and I think that no one would sue a Search Website because of these results. Now that being on top of the Google Search pages become so important, Google needs to be very careful that the search results they dispense is fair and warranted, because the outcome of those searches may impact future business performance of other companies.</p>