Essigmann v. Western New England College

The defendant refused to confer a juris doctor degree upon the plaintiff because his cumulative grade average was below the minimum level required for the bestowal of that degree. The plaintiff s cumulative grade point average had been consistently computed in compliance with the defendant’s policy of including failing course grades, even if the student elected to repeat the course and obtained a passing grade on the second attempt, as happened twice in the case of the plaintiff. He also received a failing grade in a third course, a summer elective, which the defendant factored into the…