June 28, 2002
U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Individuals Cannot Sue Colleges Under Privacy Law
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that individuals cannot sue colleges for violating a federal law that protects the privacy of student records.
In a 7-to-2 decision involving a lawsuit against Gonzaga University, the justices held that the 1974 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act does not give individual students and parents the right to sue education institutions that violate the law's provisions by divulging confidential student information.
Writing for the court's
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