The Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky must be re-sentenced as he was originally sentenced in accordance with mandatory sentencing laws that are now unconstitutional. Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012 and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison, in [...]
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After Nassar: Protecting Athletes by Regulating Sports Medicine
JURIST Guest Columnist Dionne Koller of the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses the Nassar sexual abuse scandal and the potential for regulation of "sports medicine" ... Sexual abuse of young athletes has been a persistent problem in Olympic...
Pennsylvania appeals court dismisses some charges related to Penn State child abuse scandal
The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Friday, in three separate opinions, overturned several charges for three Pennsylvania State University administrators accused of playing a role in covering up the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal. The defendants argued...
Prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane for allegedly leaking grand jury documents to the media to embarrass a critic, and then giving false testimony to a grand jury in...
An Analysis on Independent Reports: Uses, Reliability and Legality
Kathryn Young, University of Virginia School of Law
NCAA sues Pennsylvania governor in federal court over PSU fines
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) filed a lawsuit in US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday against Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett and other state officials. The...
Stepping Back From the Freeh Report: Evolving Procedural Overkill?
JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the trend of hiring independent corporate investigators and monitors, as exemplified by the most recent investigation into The Pennsylvania State University, has become overly expensive...
Stewart v. Blackwell, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Judge David D. Dowd, December 14, 2004 . Excerpt:The primary thrust of...
Sandusky County Democratic Party et al. v. J. Kenneth Blackwell, Per Curiam, October 26 [holding that Ohio voters who use provisional ballots must cast those ballots in their own precincts, overruling a contrary lower-court decision that would have counted them...