Hayes Slaughter v. Brigham Young University, a Corporation

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• holding that contract law should not be applied rigidly to the student-university relationship
• holding where plaintiff asked, and was permitted, to tape the disciplinary hearing, due process was satisfied
• acknowledging the “many cases which refer to a contractual relationship existing between a student and the university, especially at private schools----” but noting that such cases “do not adopt all commercial contract law by their use of certain elements.”
• “substantial performance” standard is intolerable when-it allows student to get away with “a little dishonesty”
• school permitted student to tape-record hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).