The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: Student Sues Over University Expulsion After Super Bowl Riot Arrest

February 22, 2012

Student Sues Over University Expulsion After Super Bowl Riot Arrest

A University of Massachusetts Amherst student expelled two days after he was arrested in a rowdy post-Super Bowl disturbance on campus is challenging his expulsion in federal court. Cullen Roe argues in a complaint filed in US District Court in Springfield that the university and its officials made an “arbitrary, unfair, intimidating, wrongful, and unlawful decision to summarily expel a student who poses no imminent threat to anyone.’’ The lawsuit said, among other things, that the university violated Roe’s rights under state and federal law. The suit also asked a judge to order the university to lift the expulsion, pay Roe compensatory damages, and pay his lawyer’s fees. Read more at:
http://articles.boston.com/2012-02-18/metro/31072512_1_expulsion-suit-student

Feb 22, 2012 2:22:00 AM | C&U News, Legal and Legislative Matters

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