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TexasTowelie

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Tue Apr 18, 2017, 08:12 PM Apr 2017

State appeals court says former UNC athletes can't pursue paper-classes lawsuit

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CHAPEL HILL -- Another lawsuit spawned by UNC-Chapel Hill’s “paper classes” scandal has come up short, this time at the hands of the N.C. Court of Appeals.

Ruling against former football player James Arnold and former women’s basketball player Leah Metcalf, a panel from the state’s second-highest court said their case looks like an attempt by their attorneys to repackage “educational malpractice claims {that} are not recognized under North Carolina law.”

Moreover, their claims of long-term career damage “are too conjectural and uncertain” to justify allowing the lawsuit to continue, Judge Wanda Bryant said in an opinion joined by fellow Judges Robert N. Hunter Jr. and Lucy Inman.

Tuesday’s ruling was the latest in a string of court losses suffered by former UNC athletes who’ve sought compensation from the university over the long-running academic fraud that benefited athletes and other students.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article145267479.html

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State appeals court says former UNC athletes can't pursue paper-classes lawsuit (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2017 OP
They knew exactly what they were doing MichMan Apr 2017 #1

MichMan

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1. They knew exactly what they were doing
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 09:04 PM
Apr 2017

The athletes had every opportunity to take academic challenging majors if they so desired. They elected to take the easy way out & now want to blame someone else

What about all the other students who had to study very hard for passing grades while these scholars did little work for theirs?

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