Faigel v. Fairfield University

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• 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.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rosato v. Mascardo
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2004-04-13· cited 61×
• Burns v. Quinnipiac University
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2010-04-06· cited 42×
• Barasso v. Rear Still Hill Road, LLC
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2004-03-09· cited 30×
• Rafalko v. University of New Haven
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-05-24· cited 24×
• Little v. Yale University
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2005-11-08· cited 17×
• Caffery v. Stillman
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-09-02· cited 14×
• Visconti v. Pepper Partners Ltd. Partnership
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-07-01· cited 9×
• Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. v. Vaszil
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2005-06-07· cited 8×
• Taricani v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-05-27· cited 6×
• Marut v. INDYMAC BANK, FSB
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2012-01-03· cited 5×
• Pouncey v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2004-08-31· cited 3×
• Demchak v. State
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2004-05-25· cited 2×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gupta v. New Britain General Hospital
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-12-31· cited 256×
• Doe v. Yale University
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-04-11· cited 223×
• Craine v. Trinity College
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-03-12· cited 118×
• Mytych v. May Department Stores Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-04-23· cited 47×
• B & D Associates Inc. v. Russell
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2002-10-15· cited 24×
• Yancey v. Connecticut Life & Casualty Insurance
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2002-03-05· cited 21×
• Vogel v. Maimonides Academy of Western Connecticut, Inc.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2000-07-11· cited 14×