C+ Lehigh Student Asks Judge to Reverse Verdict
Attorney for Megan Thode, who lost her $1.3 million lawsuit to Lehigh University, claims judge did not interpret the law properly.
A Nazareth woman who sued Lehigh University for $1.3 million over a C+ grade and lost has filed post-trial motions asking the court to reverse its decision or grant a new trial. Megan Thode’s attorney, Richard J. Orloski, contends in a motion for “judgment notwithstanding the verdict” that Northampton County Judge Emil Giordano erred in his interpretation of the law in ruling in favor of Lehigh. In the paperwork filed Monday, Orloski argues that the attorney for Lehigh, Neil Hamburg, misstated the law that should apply and Giordano relied on that misstatement in issuing the verdict. According to Orloski, the judge observed that a zero grade for class participation was “not comprehensible, or words to that effect.” Orloski also contends “…
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Rasterone
1:23 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
A good reason for Lehigh trustees to revisit tuition remission as a staff fringe benefit? Three cheers for the instructor who did not go back and change grades! And who would have thought that handing out unearned grades would have spread beyond basic pumping up the graduation statistics and eligibility for things like aid or athletics or tuition reimbursement. . But just in case I don't earn a … more ›