The Dartmouth Review, on Behalf of Its Officers, Staff and Subscribers v. Dartmouth College

How courts have described this case

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• “smoke alone is not enough to force the defendants to a trial to prove that their actions were not ... discriminatory”
• ‘“Disputes generally arise out of mutual misunderstanding, misinterpretation and overreaction, and without more, such disputes do not give rise to an inference of discrimination.’ ”
• “The district court is in a better position than this court to choose [the means 19 by which it determines the privilege] after hearing from the parties.”
• Rule 60(b)(6) may provide relief where parties were confronted with 20 extraordinary circumstances but it does not provide a second chance for parties who made deliberate 21 choices
• “To state a claim under Title VI, ... a complaint must adequately allege discrimination based on a protected category ... and must do so with the same degree of factual specificity as required in civil rights cases generally.”
• “The purpose of [Rule 23 41(a)(2)] is to permit a plaintiff to dismiss an action without prejudice so long as the 24 defendant will not be prejudiced or unfairly affected by the dismissal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).