Superior Court Judge Ann Lynch has denied an elite private school’s motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit that claims a former student was expelled after calling the football coach a pejorative term, finding there are “genuine issues of material fact.”

Lynch’s ruling is a departure from the traditional deference to the educational decisions of schools. She held that the educational deference doctrine does not apply to the expulsion of a student for nonacademic disciplinary violations.

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