Williams v. Gridley

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that allegations were sufficient to allege gender bias where University employees made statements indicating a pro-female bias, including that the University “loaded the dice against the boys” and considered male students “guilty, until proven innocent”
• observing that “deliberate indifference claims are typically brought in cases where a school has ignored a victim’s complaint of sexual harassment or assault” and questioning its application in other contexts
• dismissing promissory estoppel claim where both parties agreed that “the student-university relationship is governed by contract, which includes the reasonable expectations of students based on [Brown’s] Code”
• allowing breach of contract claim to survive where handbook provided that “the case administrator will respond’ to the respondent’s requests for information,” and the university failed to comply
• dismissing negligence claim, because it was based on the same duty as contract claim
• finding plaintiffs allegation sufficient to state a claim for breach of contract where the handbook provided that “ ‘the case administrator will respond’ to the respondent’s requests for information,” and the university failed to comply

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).