Legal Opinion

Harris v. Trustees of Columbia University

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided December 22, 1983PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Asch, J.

Petitioner has lived in a Columbia University-owned apartment building at 601 West 115th Street since 1971 pursuant to a series of one-year leases, renewed annually, which contained an “affiliation clause” requiring him to maintain an affiliation with the university as a condition *59to continuing his tenancy. Petitioner had been chief reference book editor of Columbia University Press from 1969-1975, mainly as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Encyclopedia. Upon the completion of the encyclopedia project he left Columbia’s employ. In what was admittedly a tactic to…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Tedeschi v. Wagner CollegeNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
  2. Olsson v. Board of Higher EducationNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
  3. Carr v. St. John's UniversityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1962
  4. Carr v. St. John's UniversityNew York Court of Appeals · 1962
  5. Ryan v. Hofstra UniversityNew York Supreme Court · 1971

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Harvey v. Palmer College of ChiropracticCourt of Appeals of Iowa · 1984
  2. Rensselaer Society of Engineers v. Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
  3. Harris v. Trustees of Columbia University of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1984
  4. Rizvi v. New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute of TechnologyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
  5. Galiani v. Hofstra UniversityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986

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