[5] In April 1971, little more than a year thereafter, the newspaper's policy led Palo Alto Chief of Police, James Zurcher, to initiate a search of the Daily offices.

Zurcher v. Stanford Daily went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled against the paper, holding that a state may issue a warrant to search and seize evidence from a third party who is not a criminal suspect (although "particular exactitude" must be exercised when First Amendment considerations are at play).

The prank has been credited to four Stanford undergraduates: Tony Kelly, Mark Zeigler, Adam Berns and The Daily's editor-in-chief at the time, Richard Klinger.

[15] When GSB Dean Garth Saloner resigned suddenly on September 14, 2015, amid a wrongful termination suit,[16] The Daily was scooped by Poets & Quants, a blog that covers MBA programs around the world.

Though the scandal was covered extensively by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and several international outlets, The Daily did not do additional reporting beyond its initial announcement of the dean's resignation.

[18] On April 28, 2016, The Daily reported on former Speaker of the House John Boehner's likening of 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz to "Lucifer in the flesh" at a campus event.

[20] Ultimately, Tessier-Levigne announced his resignation after an independent review stated, among other conclusions, that "Dr. Tessier-Lavigne took insufficient steps to correct mistakes",[19] and that he had "overseen labs that had an 'unusual frequency' of data manipulations.