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ANDREA ORZECH, ET AL. v. FAIRLEIGH DICKENSON UNIVERSITY A-5919-07T1 12-29-09

ANDREA ORZECH, ET AL. v. FAIRLEIGH DICKENSON
UNIVERSITY A-5919-07T1 12-29-09

A university's negligent failure to enforce its alcohol
policy and a student's violation of that policy do not negate
the student's status as a beneficiary of the university's
educational works. We therefore found that the wrongful death
claim resulting from the student's accidental fall to his death
from his dormitory window, while intoxicated, was barred by
charitable immunity, and we reversed the judgment against the
university.