Karen Overall and Arthur Dunham v. University of Pennsylvania Gail Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that statement by a member of university hiring committee that “I’ll work it out,” in response to plaintiffs request to “put odds” on her application fell short of a straightforward promise that could be reasonably relied upon to state a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation
• noting that University of Pennsylvania grievance procedure at issue “did not require sworn testimony”
• ‘‘quasi- judicial privilege consistently involve[s] proceedings before federal, state, or local governmental bodies, or proceedings held pursuant to a statute or administrative regulation’’ (emphasis added)
• “[Q]uasi-judicial privilege should be extended to. . .a governor of a State of the United States engaged in an extradition hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).