FAIRBANKS v. TULANE UNIVERSITY

No. 98-CA-1228.

731 So.2d 983 (1999)

Henry D. FAIRBANKS v. TULANE UNIVERSITY, et al., Board of Trustees for Tulane University and The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 31, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Bilbe, New Orleans, Louisiana, Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellant.

Benjamin R. Slater, III, Mark E. Van Horn, Cory R. Cahn, Slater Law Firm, New Orleans, Louisiana, Counsel for Defendant/Appellee The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund.

Court composed of Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge MOON LANDRIEU, and Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III.


LANDRIEU, Judge.

The plaintiff, Henry Fairbanks, appeals the district court's summary judgment in favor of the defendants, collectively referred to as Tulane. We reverse the district court's judgment.

The plaintiffs father, Professor Fairbanks, was employed by Tulane at the medical school as a faculty member from 1958 until his death in December of 1986, at which time he was a tenured associate professor. At the time of his father's death, the plaintiff was...

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