Eugene Frein v. Pennsylvania State Police

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• holding that defendant’s alleged oral promise that plaintiff “would receive ‘many credits’” for her prior engineering studies in Russia did not qualify as a “specific contractual promise” under Gupta
• holding 8 alleged promise that plaintiff “would be allowed ‘many credits’ from her prior engineering studies 9 . . . is too imprecise to qualify for consideration as a ‘specific contractual promise’”
• finding the oral promise to receive “many credits” for work done abroad too vague to qualify for the specific promise exception
• “To limit judicial intrusion into educational decision making, the student must ... allege nonperformance of a special promise, a promise outside the purview of normal educational expectations”
• University’s alleged promise to give plaintiff “many credits” was too vague to establish a breach of contract claim
• “[T]he basic legal relation between a student and a private university or college is contractual in nature.”

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