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'U.S. News' Prevents Law Schools From 'Gaming' its Rankings
According to today's Chron, U.S. News & World Report is considering changing how it computes its law-school rankings to prevent schools from ?gaming? the system by accepting students with lower LSATs and undergrad grades into their part-time programs...

Front Page WSJ Story on Law School Rankings
Riveting front page story in today's Wall Street Journal: Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter "Gaming," by Amir Efrati: The most widely watched ranking of U.S. law schools may move to stop an increasingly popular practice: schools gaming the system...

Law - US News Law School ranking system may be changed [Updated]
The WSJ reports today, in a front-page story by Amir Efrati headlined "Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter 'Gaming,'" that:The most widely watched ranking of U.S. law schools may move to stop an increasingly popular practice: schools gaming the system...

Fiddling with the US News Law School Ranking Formula
Gaming US News Rankings by Accepting 1L Transfers Are some law schools gaming US News rankings by accepting a large number of 1L transfers? Check out what Bill Henderson (Indiana), Brian Leiter (Texas) and Larry Ribstein (Illinois) have to say...

"Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter 'Gaming'"
"Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter 'Gaming'": Today in The Wall Street Journal, Amir Efrati has a front page article that begins, "The most widely watched ranking of U.S. law schools may move to stop an increasingly popular practice: schools gaming the system by channeling lower-scoring applicants into part-time programs that don't count in the rankings...

Gaming Law School Rankings
Law schools gaming the US News ranking system made the front page of the Wall Street Journal earlier this week. At issue, the fairly common practice of schools herding lower-scoring LSAT applicants into their part-time programs so that their LSAT...

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Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
has been accused of not doing enough to keep addicted gamblers who have signed up for a "self-exclusion" program out of casinos.

KeyBank USA
alleging the bank offered loans for fraudulent vocational schools.

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Kamehameha Schools
$7 million non-native Hawaiian racial discrimination settlement.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.