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I guess if you're going to let someone sue a Dry Cleaners for $54 million over a pair of pants, why not give them their day for this?

Student takes his C to federal court



In his lawsuit, Brian Marquis contended the university violated his civil rights and contractual rights. (STEPHEN ROSE FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)

By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | October 4, 2007

Plenty of college students grumble when they get a mediocre grade and feel that they deserved better. When Brian Marquis got a C instead of an A-minus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he made a federal case of it.

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Marquis, a 51-year-old paralegal seeking bachelor's degrees in legal studies and sociology, filed a 15-count lawsuit in US District Court in Springfield in January after a teaching assistant graded a political philosophy class on a curve and turned Marquis's A-minus into a C. Marquis contends that the university violated his civil rights and contractual rights and intentionally inflicted "emotional distress."

Last week, after a brief hearing with Marquis and a university lawyer, District Court Judge Michael A. Ponsor dismissed the suit. But Marquis said this week he is considering appealing to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

"This is not something I relish," he said from the W.E.B. Du Bois Library on campus. "This is not an issue of me walking into court and saying, 'I don't like the way this professor grades this paper,' which is purely their academic prerogative. This is an issue where the empirical data was quite clear and convincing to any reasonable mind that my performance was well within a higher range."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...federal_court/

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Fogbuster

Love it. ..... Especially the outcome!!!



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maverick4

This is actually an interesting case.

I was involved in something similar before many years ago, a group of students including myself challenged a weird curve where students who were doing well ended up with much lower than expected grades. In our particular case, it turned out the course admin unfairly re-adjusted the curve after many students dropped the class halfway.

Real World

Oh man I could drop in a couple of funny ones right now. I won't though. My shot at humor would probably be ill recieved.

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STFarmy

Feel free to PM them to me. I laugh at some of the most horrible and offensive jokes conceivable.

Real World

PM's aren't as much fun.

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Leo Tolstoy, 1897

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Is that like the bell curve.
Because if it is, it ought to be a class action suit.
I would support it.
Those curves were such BS.

reflexblue

I just don't see it RW could you tell me/us. My thinking has to graded with a curve today.

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RW, before you get funny today you have to look around and make sure there are no Eskimos or Illegal Aliens around.

Nervous Eskimo Robbing A Liquor Store:
"ON THE FLOOR YOU MOTHER STICKERS, THIS IS A F-CKUP"

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reflexblue

I know I drank to much Ripple last night and didn't get enough sleep on top of it all but I don't ever remember haveing a grade go down. From what I remember of curves the class on a whole did losey and the pro. curved the grades to bring thoses scores up.

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