A divided appellate panel has upheld the decision of the St. John’s University School of Law to rescind the admission of a student it accused of including insufficient detail in his application about a brush with the law seven years before enrolling in the school.
“Despite the petitioner’s subsequent disclosure, under the circumstances presented here, and in light of the true nature of the petitioner’s prior criminal activity, the law school’s determination to rescind his acceptance was not arbitrary and capricious, and does not warrant judicial intervention,” a 3-1 majority of the Appellate Division, Second Department, wrote on Wednesday in an unsigned opinion in Matter of Powers v. St. John’s University School of Law, 2011-08052.
