Legal Opinion
Zachary Medlock v. Trustees of Indiana University
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 30, 2013No. 13-1900PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an eye-opening case, but not because of any legal profundities or political reverberations — rather because of the glimpse it affords into contemporary student and administrative cultures of American universities.
Zachary Medlock was in the spring of 2011 a sophomore at Indiana University’s main campus, in Bloomington, living by choice in a university dormitory. As a condition of being allowed to live there he was required to agree to comply with a long list of rules, one of which was that he allow héalth and safety inspections of his dorm room by “resident…
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