Legal Opinion
Ross v. Creighton University
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 14, 1990No. 89 C 6463PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
NORDBERG, District Judge.
One day in July 1987, Kevin Ross, a former college basketball player, barricaded himself in a high-rise hotel room in downtown Chicago and threw assorted pieces of furniture out the window. As Ross currently recalls it, the defenestrated furniture “symbolized” the employees of Creighton University, whose alleged misdeeds he blames for the onset of this “major depressive episode.” Ross now sues the university in contract and tort. The gist of Ross’s Amended Complaint is that Creighton caused this episode and otherwise injured him by…
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