Panel orders Loyola to trial on flagrant foul of hoops player.Loyola Marymount University Marymount University is a coeducational, four-year Catholic university whose main campus is located in Arlington, Virginia. History Marymount was founded in 1950 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM) as Marymount College, a two-year women's school. may go to trial against a former student who claims his $35,000-per-year financial aid package was terminated in order to kick him off the school's basketball team. In sending the case back to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court, a lengthy appellate opinion filed last month called the process by which Jean-Paul Afif was removed from the team "a sham False; without substance. A sham Pleading is one that is good in form but is so clearly false in fact that it does not raise any genuine issue. ." Afif joined the Lions for the 1999-2000 season on a full scholarship. He claims he was forced off the team the next year when a new coach. Steve Aggers, came on in April 2000 and wanted to recruit his own talent. "He was railroaded out of the university and out of his scholarship in violation of NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules," said Thomas Weiss. Afif's attorney. "They put this young man through an awful lot of unnecessary pressure and stress and strain." Weiss said Afif has not sought a specific dollar figure in damages, leaving a jury to decide. But, he added, "there are individuals involved here who should have known better, and that opens the university to punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. ." Harold Bridges, a partner at Bridges & Bridges representing Loyola and Aggers, did not return calls. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the opinion, Aggers tried to cancel Afif's financial aid three times during the summer of 2000. Afif managed to renew his scholarship twice but did not appeal the third decision because he said it came after an NCAA mandated deadline. In court filings, Afif said Aggers threatened to "make plaintiff's life miserable if he did not leave Loyola." Aggers is also alleged in court papers to have encouraged Afif to join a July "shoot-out" basketball competition at which recruiters from non-Division 1 teams at other schools would attend. Shortly thereafter, Afif received a scholarship termination letter for violating NCAA rules against being recruited by one school while under scholarship to another, and holding a restaurant job while on scholarship. Afif claims he did not appeal the school's decision because NCAA rules require notification of non-renewal be filed before July 1. Instead, he transferred for one semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s to the University of North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). . He later returned to Loyola without a basketball scholarship, graduating with a business degree in May 2002. Three months later, he sued Loyola and Aggers for breach of contract and fraud. A Los Angeles Superior Court agreed with the school that Afif violated NCAA rules. But the 2nd Appellate District panel reversed that decision. |
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