Moghimzadeh v. College of Saint Rose

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Kahn, J.), entered June 13, 1995 in Albany County, which, inter alia, granted defendant’s cross motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action.

At issue on this appeal is whether the constitutional guarantees of due process are applicable to the termination of plaintiffs employment as a tenured professor at defendant, a private college. It is well settled that in the absence of a showing that the State somehow involved itself in what would otherwise be deemed a private activity, students at a private college have no right to…