Virginia’s Supreme Court has sent a lawsuit seeking to stop the closure of Sweet Briar College back to a lower court for reconsideration. The News & Advance, a newspaper in Lynchburg, Va., reports the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a state judge, James W. Updike Jr., had relied on an erroneous interpretation — that the college cannot be both a trust and a corporation — to decline to keep it from closing.
The Amherst County attorney, Ellen Bowyer, and the alumnae group Saving Sweet Briar will now have another chance to argue that the liberal-arts college for women should be enjoined from shutting its doors.
In their five-page order, the Supreme Court justices wrote: "In short, the controversy of the college’s scheduled closing is far from over, and all agree that the ultimate merits of the controversy are not, at least for today, squarely before this court."
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/virginia-supreme-court-orders-judge-to-reconsider-sweet-briar-lawsuit/100465