Coveney v. President & Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that private university did not act arbitrarily or capriciously where the school acted in good faith and on reasonable grounds in conducting disciplinary proceedings
• holding that the college’s expulsion of the student was not arbitrary and capricious where the student was provided two hearings and the opportunity to make statements
• stating that even a “private university, college, or school may not arbitrarily or capriciously dismiss a student”
• applying the terms of the student handbook in effect at the time of the incident and student’s expulsion
• release waiving claims against college, signed by student fearful of not graduating, held not to be the product of duress
• “Violations of reasonable rules and regulations of a school are a recognized ground for dismissal of a student”

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