February 2022 Community College Legal Update Newsletter

Notable decisions in this issue include:

• Academic controversies give rise to First Amendment claims against board members based on administrators’ changes to faculty employment status. 
• Disability discrimination claim is allowed because morbid obesity may be “regarded as” a disability under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act. 
• University’s lack of “substantial control” over the context where a student-on-student physical assault occurred justifies summary judgment in favor of university.