A Lehigh University (Pennsylvania) student is suing the University after receiving a C+ in a course.

Graduate student Megan Thode is seeking $1.3 million in a lawsuit that claims the C+ she received prevented her from becoming a professional counselor. Thode did graduate and is working as a drug and alcohol counselor, but she claims the low grade denied her the opportunity to be a state-certified counselor. According to news sources, Thode alleges that she would have received a B in the course had in not been for a zero she was given in class participation.

Thode's lawyer, Richard J. Orloski, is alleging that his client received a zero because her teacher and program director were unhappy with Thode's classroom behavior and her activism for LGBT rights. Lehigh's legal team counters that Thode showed unprofessional behavior in the classroom, including crying and swearing outbursts.

"I think if your honor changed the grade, you'd be the first court in the history of jurisprudence to change an academic grade," Neil Hamburg, an attorney for Lehigh, told the judge.

—Source: HuffingtonPost.com