Johnson v. Lincoln Christian College

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a student who allegedly completed all the requirements for a diploma but had not been given a diploma stated a cause of action for breach of an implied contract
• holding that a student who allegedly completed all the requirements for a diploma but had not been given a diploma stated a cause of action for breach of an implied contract
• explaining that contract is implied when student pays tuition and completes coursework in exchange for university’s facilities, instruction, and diploma
• rejecting the same interpretation of Section 5(d) as one that would “defeat[ ] one of the basic purposes” of the Act, and holding that the legislature intended to prohibit redisclosure “regardless of whether consent to the initial disclosure has been given.”
• a student sufficiently alleged a cause of action under the Act against his college, which allegedly redisclosed information learned from the student’s therapist to faculty members, students, and members of the student’s family

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).