Pride v. Howard University

How courts have described this case

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• declining to read a quorum rule for Howard’s Judiciary Board into the Code of Conduct, which was “silent” on the matter
• accepting parties’ assumption that the Code of Conduct printed in the student manual constituted a part of the contract between the university and its students
• accepting parties' assumption that the Code of Conduct printed in the student manual constituted a part of the contract between the university and its students
• university code of conduct provisions constituted contract terms based on the university’s “usual practices surrounding [the] contractual relationship”
• “[T]he usual practices surrounding a contractual relationship can themselves be raised to the level of a contractual obligation.”
• “Contracts are written, and are to be read, by reference to the norms of conduct and expectations founded upon them. This is especially true of contracts in and among a community of scholars, which is what a university is.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Andreea Gociman v. Loyola University of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 2022-07-25· cited 182×
• Alan McConnell v. Howard University
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-05-05· cited 38×
• Hajjar-Nejad v. George Washington University
  District of Columbia· 2014-03-31· cited 35×
• Mark Shaffer v. George Washington University
  D.C. Circuit· 2022-03-08· cited 35×
• Alden v. Georgetown University
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1999-08-12· cited 32×
• Doe v. George Wash. Univ.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-08-14· cited 8×
• Mawakana v. Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2015-07-10· cited 7×
• Doe v. George Washington University
  District of Columbia· 2018-08-14
• Richter v. Catholic University of America
  District of Columbia· 2019-02-07
• Doe v. American University
  District of Columbia· 2020-09-18
• Qureshi v. American University
  District of Columbia· 2021-05-07
• Smith v. Howard University
  District of Columbia· 2022-05-25
• UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES v. VALERIEMARIE MOORE, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2022-09-30
• Moree v. Georgetown University
  District of Columbia· 2025-07-21
• Iyer v. George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  District of Columbia· 2025-08-01

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jeroyd W. Greene v. Howard University, a Corporation, Nathan Hare v. Howard University, a Corporation
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-06-17· cited 118×
• Basch v. George Washington University
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-03-17· cited 41×
• Giles v. Howard University
  District of Columbia· 1977-03-17· cited 23×
• Kaiser v. REAL ESTATE COM'N OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1959-11-19· cited 6×