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AMBROSE v. NEW ENGLAND ASSN.

No. 00-2176.

252 F.3d 488 (2001)

Jamie AMBROSE et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 8, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph A. Dyer, with whom Law Offices of Ralph A. Dyer, P.A., was on brief, for appellants.

Margaret Coughlin LePage, with whom Ann L. Rudisill and Pierce Atwood were on brief, for appellee.

Martin Michaelson, Alexander E. Dreier, and Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. on brief for Council for Higher Education Accreditation and American Council on Education, amici curiae.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Under the distinct impression that their post-secondary schooling, in the Dickensian phrase, left them with "a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing," Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz (1839), seven erstwhile students brought suit against the organization that had accredited the college at which they had matriculated. Their complaint raises novel questions anent an accreditor's tort liability to third persons. The district...

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