Napolitano v. Princeton Univ. Trustees

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing “the necessity for independence of a university in dealing with the academic failures, transgressions or problems of a student” and assessing a “problem … involving academic standards”
• discussing a student’s challenge of the trustee’s decision to withhold her degree for one year for academic fraud
• university/student relationship cannot be described either in purely contractual or associational terms
• decided in the context of academic discipline, and finding, “[iJt is apparent that some elements of the law of contracts are used and should be used in the analysis of the relationship between plaintiff and the University”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).