TAVOLONI v. MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER

No. 97 CIV. 2967(LAK).

984 F.Supp. 196 (1997)

Nicola TAVOLONI, Plaintiff, v. MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER, et al., Defendants.

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

As Corrected November 24, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Hardy, Ethan Leonard, Scheurer, Wiggin & Hardy, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

Carla A. Kerr, Derek J.T. Adler, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.


OPINION

KAPLAN, District Judge.

This case calls upon the Court to revisit a field that, for the most part, has lain fallow since the era of widespread campus unrest that attended the Vietnam war—the circumstances in which the actions of a private educational institution amount to state action for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Constitution, albeit in the context of personnel action taken with respect to a faculty member rather than disciplinary...

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