New Law School Lawsuit: My Grades Were Unfairly Low

And now for something completely different from the run of lawsuits against law schools alleging misrepresentation of the employment prospects of their graduates. Two former law students at Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law have sued the school, its board, and an adjunct professor after their Contracts II grades rendered them ineligible to return.  According to the National Law Journal, the school's dean is not sympathetic: "These are first-year students who flunked out." The suit seeks $75K in compensatory and punitive damages, and reinstatement to the law school, for breach of contract, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, defamation, slander and libel, and negligence in the hiring, training and supervision of the contracts professor.