Penn State, Spotlight PA Settle Lawsuit in ‘Important Win for Transparency’

SCASD settles lawsuit with parochial students who were barred from extracurriculars

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (WTAJ) —The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has confirmed that the State College Area School District has settled a lawsuit claiming that it discriminated against children from parochial schools. Court documents show that the district and the board of directors were being sued over accusations that extracurricular activities and education programs provided by the school to students, homesch…

Penn State settles with news outlet in Sunshine Act case, will have to justify closed meetings

Penn State’s board of trustees will be required to undergo transparency training and begin publicly stating their rationale for closed-door meetings as part of a settlement with the news organization Spotlight PA in a case where the plaintiffs argued the board played fast-and-loose with Pennsylvania’s open meetings law.

Penn State trustees agree to legal training, improved transparency in settlement with Spotlight PA

The settlement ends roughly 18 months of litigation after Spotlight PA brought a case against the university’s board over alleged violations of Pennsylvania’s open meetings law.

In settlement with Spotlight PA, Penn State University agrees to transparency reforms

Spotlight PA has settled its open meetings lawsuit against Penn State University’s governing body, securing significant victories in the name of transparency and accountability.  In a settlement finalized last week, the university’s Board of Trustees agreed to provide training for individual trustees focused on Pennsylvania’s Sunshine Act, the state law that governs access to meetings of public bodies. The Board also agreed to provide more detai…

Penn State, Spotlight PA settle lawsuit in ‘important win for transparency’

Penn State University’s Board of Trustees will complete a training on the state’s open meetings law and disclose more information about its closed-door gatherings as part of a settlement with Spotlight PA. The agreement, signed last week, ends a case the newsroom, in partnership with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, brought against the board in December 2023 for alleged violations of the Sunshine Act, the state law mandating tra…

Penn State Wins NIL Defamation Suit Filed by Ex-Basketball Captain

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by former Penn State men’s basketball captain Kanye Clary against the school and head coach Mike Rhoades because Clary failed to offer necessary specifics in his accusations. Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann wrote that Clary did not “identify the audience of the […]