I suppose it was just waiting to happen. A student at University of Massachusetts at Amherst majoring in legal studies and sociology, 51-year-old Brian Marquis, expected an A- for one of his courses but instead got a C. Marquis claims his grade was wrecked by curving1

Marquis sued UMass for ‘violating his civil rights and contractual rights and intentionally inflicted “emotional distress”‘. Boo hoo hoo.

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Footnotes
  1. For my Singapore readers, curving is the process by which scores are normalized against the class distribution rather than using the absolute scores. Some people may know it as “moderation”.↩