Legal Opinion
DeLong v. Vanderbilt University
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided August 15, 2005No. M2002-02655-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., P.J., M.S.,
delivered the opinion of the court,
in which WILLIAM B. CAIN and PATRICIA J. COTTRELL, JJ., joined.
This appeal involves the collateral consequences of the dismissal of a wrongful death claim for failure to prosecute. The mother of a student who fell to his death from a dormitory window filed suit in both state and federal court against the university her son was attending. After the state proceedings lay dormant for over one year, the Circuit Court for Davidson County dismissed the complaint for failure to prosecute. Thereafter, the university moved to…
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