soundhaspriority wrote:

"Richard Crowley" wrote in message
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"Sylvan Morein, DDS" wrote ...
Well, that's very obvious, Steve. " is
in
fact my sick son Robert Morein, who's now got a new stalking name as he's
ruined his and MY good name with his antics.

No matter how many times you plonk these sick wackos,
they keep coming back with new aliases. At this point I
don't care if this personage is the guy suffering from some
mental illness in Oz, or if there really is such a person as
"Sylvan Morein, DDS" he comes off as equally sick.
It's Brian L. McCarty. He's been doing this forever. My father has never
been on usenet.

The story about Bob Morein's University experience is correct though.

" A recent Pennsylvania case has reaffirmed the right of colleges and
universities to make academic decisions without fear of reprisal by the courts.

In Morein v. Drexel University, et al., doctoral student Robert Morein
challenged the right of Drexel University to dismiss him on academic grounds.
Judge Esther R. Sylvester of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas initially
ordered Drexel to refund Morein's tuition. The Pennsylvania Superior Court,
however, reversed that decision, reaffirming the longstanding principle that
faculty-not courts-should make academic decisions.

Morein enrolled in Drexel's electrical engineering Ph.D. program in 1986. After
eight years, the university dismissed him for failing to make satisfactory
progress toward his dissertation. Morein filed a lawsuit against Drexel and five
faculty members, including the university's president, claiming breach of
contract, negligence, and denial of due process. A panel of three attorney
arbitrators initially found in favor of the university. Morein appealed and
Judge Sylvester retried the case. The trial court ruled in favor of Morein,
holding that the university had not fulfilled its contractual responsibility to
educate him properly.

The court entered a final judgment in favor of Morein for $44,914 in back
tuition and ordered Drexel to remove all failing grades from his transcript. The
university appealed to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, which reversed the
ruling in a 2-1 decision.

At issue before the Superior Court was whether the trial court erred by
substituting its own judgment for the academic judgment of Drexel's faculty
members. The American Council on Education, the Association of Independent
Colleges & Universities of Pennsylvania, and numerous colleges and universities
in the commonwealth filed an amicus brief on Drexel's behalf.

In reversing Judge Sylvester, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reiterated the
well-established U.S. Supreme Court and Pennsylvania precedent that holds that
courts must show deference to academic institutions, their faculty, and their
academic decisions. While the Superior Court acknowledged that a student can
bring an action against a university for breach of contract, it rejected the
trial court's attempt to second-- guess the university's academic decision
making under the guise of claiming that the university had breached its contract
to educate a student properly. The Superior Court held that Judge Sylvester's
wholesale disregard of the qualifications and judgments of Drexel's faculty was
improper and without any basis in fact or record. The Superior Court also found
that the faculty had repeatedly reminded Morein of his academic deficiencies and
that he had refused to correct them.

This case reaffirms the right of a private university to dismiss a student on
academic grounds and highlights the inappropriateness of courts that attempt to
substitute their judgments for the academic decisions of a university and its
faculty. "

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...10/ai_n8971754

As for Bob's appeal to the Supreme Court.....

http://www.aopc.org/OpPosting/Suprem...-17eal2001.pdf


Graham