The Old College Try

[lcjjdnh]

Have to appreciate the brazenness of this lawsuit: College student gets kicked out of Indiana University after being caught with a six-foot marijuana plant in his dorm room. Nevertheless, no criminal charges get filed and school readmits him--and gives him a part-time job--the next year. Not yet satisfied, student sues school for violating his Fourth Amendment rights.

Judge Posner was not amused:

In short, the case is near frivolous, the decision to sue the two student inspectors offensive, and the most surprising feature of the entire episode is the exceptional lenity with which a state university (in a state that does not allow me‐ dicinal, let alone recreational, use of marijuana) treated a brazen violator of its rules of conduct and of the criminal law. But as we noted some years ago, “the danger that with‐ out the procedural safeguards deemed appropriate in civil and criminal litigation public universities will engage in an orgy of expulsions is slight. The relation of students to uni‐ versities is, after all, essentially that of customer to seller.” Osteen v. Henley, supra, 13 F.3d at 226. And if we may judge from the happy ending of the marijuana bust for Medlock, the customer is indeed always right.

Link: http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2013/D12-30/C:13-1900:Josner:aut:T:fnOp:N:1265404:S:0

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I thought this was going to be about the basketball team that lost by more than 100 points tonight.

 

[ColdCat]

I thought it was going to be about the Garfunkel and Oates song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n39RzgVNP8

and yes, there is no such institution as the University of Indiana

 

[MisterCreosote]

Doesn't he know the Fourth Amendment was neutered in 2001?

 

[lcjjdnh]

Joke's on you.

There is no college by that name.

Have to appreciate the brazenness of this lawsuit: College student gets kicked out of the University of Indiana

Fixed so those of you bothered by this could rest easy.