Legal Opinion
Weiss v. Walsh
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 24, 1971No. 70 Civ. 4763PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TYLER, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a metaphysician of reknown, alleges that Fordham University offered him the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities only to withdraw the alleged offer on the sole ground that he had passed his sixty-fifth year. Seeking both injunctive and monetary relief, his five-part complaint asserts that the alleged conduct violates: (1) the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 11 of the New York Constitution; (2) the “letter and spirit” of New York Education Law, McKinney’s Consol.Laws, c. 16, § 289; (3) the…
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