Jonathan Chan and Karla Ford expected to be second-year law students at Texas Southern University this year. Instead, the two are making headlines after filing an unusual federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Texas last week. It contends the D grades they got from an adjunct professor teaching a first-year contracts class were "arbitrary and capricious," intended to "curve them out" of the class rather than objectively assess their performance, reports the Houston Chronicle. Naming as defendants the school and the then-adjunct, the suit asserts claims for alleged breach of contract, defamation, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional…
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