"Fine on Va. Tech reversed" March 31, 2012|By Kimberly Hefling and Zinie Chen Sampson
RICHMOND - Virginia Tech received a measure of vindication for its handling of a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 people dead when a judge ruled that federal education officials were wrong to conclude the university’s response to the tragedy violated federal law.
In a ruling that became available Friday, Administrative Judge Ernest Canellos dismissed a $55,000 fine against the Blacksburg school and determined that the university officials’ actions on April 16, 2007, did not violate the Clery Act, which requires schools to issue timely warnings of campus threats.
Virginia Tech officials said they were satisfied with the removal of the fine. But university spokesman Larry Hincker said sadness remains about the slayings by student Seung-Hui Cho, the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history....
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