Legal Opinion
Kenneth B. Krohn v. Harvard Law School
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 6, 1977No. 76-1445PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, District Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant appeals from the dismissal of his civil rights suit against Harvard Law School in which he alleged that the rejection of his application to the defendant law school was the result of an arbitrary selection process which violated his rights to due process and equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Appellant brought his action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1343.
In order to state a cause of action in a section 1983 suit, the plaintiff must show that the alleged…
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