How colleges should report crimes on and near their campuses is a high-stakes question that, for the first time, a federal appellate court has tried to answer. Colleges are required to issue "timely warnings" under the federal campus-crime law known as the Clery Act, but how fast those warnings should come and what kind of information they should include is the matter of much debate. Some administrators have pushed for more guidance from the U.S. Education Department. This article reports on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit's ruling last week which favors Johnson & Wales University against a former student who had sued for defamation after it named the student as an assailant in a crime alert. The federal appeals court supports Johnson & Wales University's right to name an assailant in a public notice about a crime near the campus. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel, which affirms a lower court's ruling, says that Johnson & Wales handled the situation appropriately.