Zumbrun v. University of Southern California

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• holding, in a 22 negligence cause of action, the pleading must inform the defendant of the causal connection 23 between defendant’s alleged conduct and damages, and damages must allege facts to support them or else they are conclusory and unsatisfactory
• “pleaded facts must show something which, without the conspiracy, would give rise to a cause of action”
• “Allegations of damages without allegations of fact to support them are but conclusions 12 of law, which are not admitted by demurrer.”
• student could maintain breach of contract action when professor terminated course in which she was enrolled one month before final examination
• claim for money had and 25 received seeks relief that is “something in the nature of a constructive trust and . . . [o]ne cannot be 26 held to be a constructive trustee of something he has not acquired”
• claim for money had and 25 received seeks relief that is “something in the nature of a constructive trust and . . . [o]ne cannot be 26 held to be a constructive trustee of something he has not acquired”

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