Expelled California Western Law Student Wins State Court Appeal

California Western School of Law failed to follow its own disciplinary procedures when it expelled a student for allegedly sending inappropriate emails from fellow students’ accounts without their permission, a state appeals court said.

In two incidents in the 2017-18 school year, a number of sexual, racist, and otherwise inappropriate emails were sent from the accounts of students who purportedly failed to log out of campus computers. The perpetrator also printed hundreds of pages of study materials and other documents that were charged to the account holders.

The school conducted an investigation and identified Christopher Teacher as a suspect. A ...