CASE NAME: Ickes v. University of California College of the Law, San Francisco , No. 25‐cv‐05859 (N.D. Cal. 12/27/25).
More than a year after the Stop Campus Hazing Act was signed into law, many institutions are still struggling to operationalize its transparency and reporting requirements. A recent HazingInfo.org review of nearly 1,500 campuses found more than 800 schools (56%) missed the Dec. 23, 2025 deadline to publish a Campus Hazing Transparency Report (CHTR), and nearly one‐quarter of campuses posted no hazing information online at all. For campus safety leaders, that's not just a compliance problem — it's a risk‐management problem that touches Clery Act processes, incident response, prevention programming, communications, and trust with students and families.
The changing landscape of gambling and sports betting in the United States is causing increased concern, particularly when it comes to young people. Although gambling is federally permitted in the United States, states have differing regulations related to casinos, state lotteries, online gambling, and sports betting. More than half of U.S. states have legalized mobile/online gambling or sports betting, and since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act in 2018, almost 40 states have legalized retail and/or mobile sports betting. The expansion of online and mobile gambling platforms and the fast‐paced, highly engaged design of these digital gambling products has contributed to increasing participation and greater potential for harm. The commercial gambling sector has also prioritized advertising efforts, using social media and consumer data to deliver personalized marketing to increase gambling engagement.
Case name: Doe v. Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska , No. 4:25CV3058 (D. Neb. 08/21/25).
In this somewhat chaotic time in college athletics, student‐athletes have many opportunities to make money through name, image, and likeness. How the $2.8 billion in the House settlement will be distributed is a contentious subject, and the athletics administrators and coaches face an ever‐evolving workplace.
A Colorado State University hockey player traveled with the men's hockey team to North Dakota to play the University of Jamestown. During the game, Jamestown built a 7–1 lead. With only 57 seconds remaining, Jamestown's head coach sent a player with a reputation for aggressiveness onto the ice. The Jamestown player allegedly cultivated an online persona as the “jawbreaker.” The CSU hockey player claimed that the Jamestown coaching staff knew about the player's tendency to deliberately injure opposing players, including breaking jaws.
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A study published in Frontiers in Psychology explores the relationship between online gambling behavior and disability status among college students. The study, titled “Negative impact of online gambling problematic in disabled and nondisabled university students: exploring the risk profile,” examined the gambling profile and beliefs of students based on whether they had a disability.
Case name: Maxwell v. Tuskegee University , No. 3:23‐cv‐472 (M.D. Ala. 09/25/25).
In the aftermath of the approval of the House settlement, there was hope that the newly created College Sports Commission would soon become the type of effective regulatory oversight and enforcement entity that had been envisioned in the settlement agreement. The recent release of the Commission's participant agreement— required to be signed by all individual schools — reflects the magnitude of that undertaking and the related obligations imposed on the signatory schools.