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Abstract: 

Access to contents of a laptop supplied by University grant funds is in question when the end user, an assistant professor who had signed two documents regarding NYU’s computer use policies, is indicted for fraud. The appeals court holds that Wright State University police officers were performing a public duty in responding to the anonymous call advising that a student was going to harm himself; and that there was no evidence that the student had justifiably relied on any affirmative undertaking on the part of the university to act on his behalf, as would be necessary to establish a special relationship and overcome sovereign immunity for negligence in the performance of a public duty in the case of a second year student who committed suicide by helium Asphyxiation at WSU.

Keywords: United States v. Yudong Zhu, 2014 WL 2465284 (S.D.N.Y. May 27, 2014); United States v. Davis, 967 F.2d 84, 87 (1992); United States v. Matlock, 415 U.S. 164, 171 (1974); Conner v. Wright State Univ., 2013 WL 6835270 (Ohio App.); Ohio Rev. Code §2743

Affiliations:  1: Supreme Court of Ohio.