Thursday, October 04, 2007
Frivolous lawsuit watch
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."
"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."
Marquis - who salts his comments with "strike that" - acknowledged he was alarmed the C might lower his grade point average and make him less attractive to a law school.
Being quoted from the W.E.B Du Bois Library was a nice touch, don't you think? And what kind of idiot thinks that suing his school over a grade, even if successful, will somehow make him more attractive to another school?
Fortunately a judge with some common sense threw out the complaint. The plaintiff currently mulls whether an appeal is in order.
(via Drudge)
6 Comments:
By 
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Thu Oct 04, 07:19:00 PM:
Someone needs to remind him that he will need references not only to get into law school, but also be sit for the bar exam.
andrewdb
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Christopher Chambers, at
Fri Oct 05, 08:41:00 AM:
I know! Those lazy, shiftless, do-it-for blacks! Like we really care about the W.E.B. Dubois Library anyway; this racial coding make me vomit in nay event. Kinda makes you wish you'd picked your own cotton, don't? ;-)
By , at
Fri Oct 05, 09:35:00 AM:
BTW, my mother had some first cousins who in their childhood did a fair amount of cotton-picking.
CC, you are always entertaining.
By , at
Fri Oct 05, 09:39:00 AM:
CC: was my previous posting of sufficient quality for you to work it into dialog for your next novel?
By , at
Fri Oct 05, 03:01:00 PM:
So an objective A- (i.e. 92) was curved to a C. In other words the average grade was 90-94. Is there something wrong with a) the grading skills of the instructor, or b) the content level of the course?
By , at
Sat Oct 06, 04:09:00 PM:
I heard of a convicted murderer in NEW YORK who tried to sue the police for abuse after he went and murdered his wife and son and step son then tried to sue over something that did,nt happen frankly he deserves to hang from a tree and get the book THE RULE OF LAWYERS by WALTER K. OLSON
