Legal Opinion

The Dartmouth Review, on Behalf of Its Officers, Staff and Subscribers v. Dartmouth College

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided November 9, 1989No. 89-1466PublishedCited by 668 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Circuit Judge.'

This suit was brought in consequence of a riptide of unpleasantness which flooded the Dartmouth College campus during the second semester of the 1987-88 academic year. 1 The district court ordered dismissal for failure to state a claim. Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth College, 709 F.Supp. 32 (D.N.H.1989). We affirm.

As needs must, we start by summarizing the factbound allegations of plaintiffs’ two-count complaint insofar as material to our inquiry. In so doing, we do not purport to divine the truth of a conflicted situation, but describe only what plaintiffs claim the…

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