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finding that student had no cognizable breach of contract claim under North Carolina law against a university for failure to prevent harassment by classmates, because “school publications are not generally a valid source of contract” and “[a]ttending a college or university does not warrant a student to file a breach-of-contract suit whenever he or she feels that the experience has not lived up to broad expectations that he or she may have developed after reading materials promulgated by the school's administrators, admissions office, or public relations department”
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CIVIL ACTION No. 10-234.
August 25, 2010
ORDER
AND NOW, this 19th day of August, 2010, upon consideration of the Motion for Leave to File filed by Plaintiff Vamsidhar Vurimindi (Docket No. 108), and also the Motions to Dismiss filed by Defendants Duke University Fuqua School of Business (Docket No. 82); Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (Docket No. 83); GlaxoSmithKline (Docket No. 84); Accenture, Agilent, Alcatel-Lucent, Amgen, Bank of America, Booz Allen Hamilton, Dell, Emergent Game Technologies, Ericsson, Ferro, GlaxoSmithKline, HealthPort, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Seegrid, Shaw Areva MOX Services, Signalscape, SunTrust Bank, Talecris Biotherapeutics, and W.L. Gore Associates (Docket No. 85); Signalscape (Docket No. 86); Ericsson (Docket No. 87); Sunil Balashaheb Patil (Docket No. 88); Bank of America and Talecris Biotherapeutics (Docket No. 89); Shaw Areva MOX Services (Docket No. 90); Emergent Game Technologies (Docket No. 91); and M.D. Laser Studio, Douglas Bashar, Alissandro Castillo, Pratibhash Chattopadhyay, Sudheer Dharanikota, John Dohnal, Jennifer Erickson, Seth Gillespie, Shana Keating, Amit Khare, Rajiv Prasad Kolagani, Jason Link, David Mitchell, Pradeep Rajagopal, Moira Ringo, Robert Ross, Kristoffer Singleton, Jason Sundberg, Gregory Valentine, Peter Walton, Johnny Williams, and Eugene White (Docket No. 92); and the Fuqua School of Business (Docket No. 103), it is hereby ORDERED that each of the Motions is GRANTED.
It is further ORDERED that:
1. All of Mr. Vurimindi's claims against the Fuqua School of Business, Jason Sundberg, Accenture, Agilent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, Amgen, Bank of America, Booz Allen Hamilton, Dell, Ericsson, Ferro, GlaxoSmithKline, HealthPort, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Seegrid, Shaw Areva MOX Services, Signalscape, SunTrust Bank, Talecris Biotherapeutics, and W.L. Gore Assoc. are hereby DISMISSED with prejudice.
2. All of Mr. Vurimindi's claims against M.D. Laser Studio, Emergent Game Technologies, Sunil Balashaheb Patil, Douglas M. Bashar, Alissandro Castillo, Pratibhash Chattopadhyay, John Dohnal, Seth Gillespie, Jennifer Erickson, Sudheer Dharanikota, Shana Keating, Amit Khare, Rajiv Prasad Kolagani, Jason Link, David Mitchell, Pradeep Rajagopal, Moira Ringo, Robert Ross, Kristoffer Singleton, Gregory Valentine, Peter Walton, Johnny Williams, and Eugene White are hereby DISMISSED without prejudice.