Ross V. Creighton Case Brief

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Relevant Facts Involved Kevin Ross, plaintiff, accepted an athletic scholarship from Creighton University to play basketball. Ross was academically disadvantaged and was far below the average Creighton student. The university promised to give Ross a “meaningful college education and degree” while assuring Ross that he would receive sufficient tutoring. Ross claims that Creighton failed to provide him with sufficient and competent tutoring as they had promised. When leaving Creighton University, Ross had the language skills of a fourth grader and the reading skills of a seventh grader. At Creighton’s expense, Ross enrolled into remedial classes with grade school children at Westside Preparatory School. Ross later attended Roosevelt University in Chicago, but was forced to withdraw due to lack of funds. Relevant Issues In July 1987, Ross suffered a “major depressive episode” where he barricaded himself in a hotel room and threw furniture out the window that represented the staff at Creighton University that wronged him. Ross claims that the university was negligent toward him. First, he claims that Creighton had committed “educational malpractice” by not providing him with a meaningful education and preparing him for employment after college. Second, Ross claims that Creighton negligently inflicted emotional distress upon him by reasons of enrolling him in a stressful university environment that he was not well prepared for and by failing to provide remedial programs that helped him academically. Third, Ross urges the court to put in system a “negligent admission” that would allow recovery when a student admits, then does not sufficiently assist, an unprepared student. He also alleges that the Athletic Department employed a secretary to read his assignments and prepare and type his papers. Rule of Law Court Used Ross filed a suit against Creighton University in
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