Legal Opinion
Tavoloni v. Mount Sinai Medical Center
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 24, 1997No. 97 CIV. 2967(LAK)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
This case calls upon the Court to revisit a field that, for the most part, has lain fallow since the era of widespread campus unrest that attended the Vietnam war—the circumstances in which the actions of a private educational institution amount to state action for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Constitution, albeit in the context of personnel action taken with respect to a faculty member rather than disciplinary action taken against allegedly disruptive students.
Plaintiff, a professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, claims that he has…
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Frooks v. Town of CortlandtDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1998
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