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PLECHNER v. WIDENER COLLEGE, INC.

No. 76-2291.

569 F.2d 1250 (1977)

Richard F. PLECHNER, Plaintiff, and Alfred Avins, Intervenor-Plaintiff, Appellants, v. WIDENER COLLEGE, INC., a Pennsylvania Corporation, and the Delaware Law School of Widener College, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Avins, Wilmington, Del., for appellants.

Franklin Poul, Judith R. Cohn, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellees, Widener College, Inc. and The Delaware Law School of Widener College, Inc.

Kenneth F. Boehm, Sterling, Va., for amicus curiae, Young Americans for Freedom, Legal Action Committee.

George P. Williams, III, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, The American Bar Ass'n.

Before GIBBONS and WEIS, Circuit Judges and MEANOR, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

WEIS, Circuit Judge.

The necessity for the newly established Delaware Law School to affiliate with Widener College as a prelude to American Bar Association accreditation is the basic dispute underlying this appeal. We accept the district court's conclusions that affiliation was in the best interests of the law school as well as its students and that the procedures employed were not legally deficient. After careful consideration of this...

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