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...retired postmaster suffered from emphysema caused by smoking. Even though he gave up cigarettes in 1962, Henry's condition kept getting worse. The emphysema had created so many permanent blisters in his lungs that he could barely cross the room without gasping for air. So when Dr. Joel Cooper of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, told him about a radical new idea--cutting out the useless pieces of his lungs to give him more room to breathe--Henry jumped at the chance to be Cooper's first patient. Now, two years after the surgery...
Ryan said that Cooper's complaint is not amatter for the courts...
...want to go too much into the detailsof Mr. Cooper's career at Harvard, but all thematters seem to be between him and the University,not things the federal court should decide," Ryansaid. "He is complaining about AdministrativeBoard and disciplinary matters which are reallyUniversity matters...
...complaint says the University's actionswere "taken out of animosity and with themalicious intention to injure the Student [Cooper]and deprive him of his constitutional rights...
...Cooper is alleging all sorts ofconstitutional right violations and our responseis that you can't sue a University or anindividual over that violation," Ryan said."That's something only governments...