DOE v. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

77 Civ. 6285 (GLG).

511 F.Supp. 606 (1981)

Jane DOE, Plaintiff, v. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: John Sawhill, individually and as President of New York University; Ivan Bennett, M.D., individually and as Dean of New York University School of Medicine; Jacobus Potter, individually and as Associate Dean of New York University School of Medicine; David S. Scotch, individually and as Dean of Students of New York University School of Medicine, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

April 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher A. Hansen, Robert Levy, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York City, for plaintiff.

S. Andrew Schaffer, New York City, for defendants New York University et al.; Robert P. Walton, Ada Meloy, New York City, of counsel.


MEMORANDUM DECISION

GOETTEL, District Judge.

In January of 1976, plaintiff Jane Doe, then a first-year student at the New York University Medical School ("N.Y.U."), secured a leave of absence from N.Y.U. because of various psychological problems she had been having. She subsequently received psychiatric treatment and sought readmission in 1977, maintaining that she had regained sufficient emotional stability to return to school. N.Y.U. refused to readmit...

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