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Notre Dame one of 16 institutions sued for alleged price fixing on financial aid

Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Notre Dame is among 16 elite American universities being sued for alleged violations of antitrust laws and colluding with other schools to limit students’ financial aid, the Wall Street Journal reported. The federal lawsuit, filed Sunday in the state of Illinois, states the universities engaged in alleged price fixing and “artificially inflated the net price

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Law students address issue of wrongful convictions

Selena Ponio | Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Second year Notre Dame law student Erika Gustin is more involved in what happens after a trial than during. “Before I started law school I started looking into wrongful conviction statistics and information on my own, which is absolutely horrifying,” Gustin said. “It came out off an interest in process improvement. Everything is a process

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Football players plead guilty in Fulton court, may avoid jail time

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Two Notre Dame football players charged with possession of marijuana, sophomores Dexter Williams and Ashton White, pleaded guilty in Fulton County Superior Court on Tuesday, according to a report from the South Bend Tribune. Williams and White, in addition to three other Notre Dame football players, were pulled over in Fulton County on Aug. 19.