Manitoba Court tosses Gabor Lukacs' lawsuit

An update on the ongoing Gabor Lukacs litigation at the University of Manitoba. Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench recently ruled that Lukacs has no standing to challenge the university's decision to award a PhD to a student. The decision was a unsurprising given the vast amount of internal power that universities possess to govern themselves. Gabor Lukacs and his legal counsel are currently assessing their options and it's unknown at this time whether an appeal will be forthcoming. Still outstanding is the separate grievance filed by the University of Manitoba Faculty Association which won't be resolved until 2012 with arbitration dates scheduled for later this year. I've previously written about this case, see: here, here, and here.