The fight over a $180 million lawsuit filed against Cornell by the father of a student who committed suicide has intensified in the last month, with both sides toughening their rhetoric and accusing each other of distortions and ethical improprieties.

Updated: The father of Bradley Ginsburg '13, who died in Fall Creek Gorge in 2010 after jumping from the Thurston Avenue Bridge, filed a lawsuit against the University, the City of Ithaca and several administrators earlier this week.

Individual authors and authors’ groups around the world are suing Cornell and four other universities, alleging that the universities’ library digitization projects are an illegal infringement of copyright law.

Updated. The lawsuit was filed by the mother of George Desdunes '13. Desdunes died after he was kidnapped, tied up and given large amounts of alcohol during an SAE pledging event in February, according to court documents.

The latest chapter in a sexual harassment dispute between a former graduate student and a professor concluded on March 3, when an appeals court dismissed the case of Marita Hyman.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former Cornell researcher against her supervisor.

Finding “sufficient causal relationship” between work-related injuries sustained by Cornell painter James Smith in 2001 and his suicide in 2007, a New York State appellate court upheld a decision awarding Smith’s wife workers’ compensation payment.

Ithaca native Amy Crockford’s police abuse and discrimination case against the Ithaca Police Department has been moved to the U.S. Federal District Court in Syracuse, based on a motion by the City of Ithaca.

A lawsuit that claimed Cornell University and New York State committed fraud against the U.S. Government was dismissed on February 16, ending a series of complaints filed in 2004 by Bruce Chapman, president of Handle With Care Behavior Management System, Inc.

The Cornell lecturer who was struck last semester by a weight that rolled down Libe Slope in a wrestling team practice gone awry is considering a lawsuit against the University, yet Cornell maintains she does not have standing to sue, according to her attorney.

Joanna Luks, who is still out on medical leave, suffered multiple serious injuries as a result of the accident on Oct. 9.

The incident occurred after members of the wrestling team dropped a rubber plate they had been using during an exercise on Libe Slope. The 45-pound weight rolled down the Slope and across West Avenue. It struck Luks, who was walking down Baker Staircase, and knocked her down the stairs, according to The Sun’s archives. She was later airlifted to Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira.