Joseph Corlett titled his essay "Hot for Teacher," sparking a legal battle whose ending this week can also be described in lyrics from that Van Halen classic: Class dismissed.

When he was a student at Oakland University in Michigan, the 57-year-old Corlett handed in a writing assignment declaring his attraction to the instructor of the course. The Associated Press reports that the essay described his teacher as "tall, blonde, stacked" and compared her to Ginger from Gilligan's Island.