Legal Opinion
Olsson v. Board of Higher Education
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 20, 1980PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Gabrielli, J.
This case presents the novel questions of whether and under what circumstances a court may intervene in the decision of an educational institution to withhold a diploma from one of its students on academic grounds. Specifically, we are asked to determine whether an educational institution may be estopped from asserting that a student has not fulfilled the requirements for graduation where the student’s deficiency was caused in part by his reliance upon a professor’s misleading statement regarding the institution’s grading criteria. Although we find that the…
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