Legal Opinion
Coghlan v. Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided August 30, 1999No. 24318PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SILAK, Justice.
This is a tort action filed by a University of Idaho student who was injured when she fell, while intoxicated, from the third-story fire escape of her sorority house.
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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
A. Facts
On August 19, 1993, Rejena Coghlan (Coghlan) was an eighteen-year-old freshman at the University of Idaho who had recently been notified of her admission to the Apha Phi Sorority. At that time, the University of Idaho (University) and campus fraternities and sororities were celebrating the end of “Rush Week,” which is an event sponsored and sanctioned by the University in…
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