In what is becoming one of the hottest topics in Pennsylvania Child Custody Law, in loco parentis took center stage before the Superior Court in the recent case of MJS v. BB v. BB, ___ A.

The restaurant’s owner sued the college — and lost. Berea was acting according to the philosophy of in loco parentis, the idea that colleges should act “in the place of the parent ...

Not everyone subscribes to the hoary old maxim that school days are the best of your life, but even for those who do, along comes “In Loco Parentis” to prove that they could have been better.

The mother filed preliminary objections challenging E.K.’s counterclaim for custody of the child on the grounds that E.K. lacked standing “because E.K. ‘does not stand in loco parentis to ...

Every university in the nation will closely follow the proceedings in Shin v. MIT, a case that threatens to reestablish the role of in loco parentis in higher education. In loco parentis – the concept ...

Known as in loco parentis—“in place of the parent”—these institutions were understood to stand in for parents, and hence dictated rules regarding dormitory life, dating, curfew ...

If the child manages to escape and can’t control his or her underdeveloped wings, the shocked elders sue. The college has failed to maintain its promise to serve In Loco Parentis Luxus.