Fellheimer v. Middlebury College

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when reviewing a private university’s decision to discipline a student: “Constitutional due process standards should not be used to judge the College’s compliance with contractual obligations.”
• noting that Slaughter did not completely rule out application of contract doctrine to the student-university relationship
• holding that the college’s decision to conduct a process to determine a male student’s responsibility for alleged sexual misconduct was not “extreme or outrageous” despite the college’s failure to provide the student with adequate notice of his alleged misconduct
• observing that: “To be sure, the vast majority of College disciplinary procedures will satisfy this standard, and it is against this standard that ... the plaintiffs claims of breach of contract must be evaluated.”
• analyzing disciplinary procedures and finding that college failed to provide student with process described in student handbook
• dismissing a male student’s claim against the college for confronting him about a female student’s allegation of rape

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