Matthew Jacobson v. Butterfly Blaise, et al.
ERISA DueProcess Privacy
Whether the Due Process, Equal Protection and Privilege and Immunities Clauses require that an accused charged with what would otherwise be a criminal offense in a student disciplinary proceeding at a public university be afforded a meaningful opportunity to be heard and judged by objective evidence in a fair, impartial, unbiased and untainted forum
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the Due Process, Equal Protection and Privilege and Immunities Clauses of the United States Constitution, and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial applicable to New York through the Fourteenth Amendment, require that an accused charged with what otherwise would be a criminal offense in a statutorily mandated student disciplinary proceeding at a public university be afforded a meaningful opportunity to be heard and judged by objective evidence in a fair, impartial, unbiased and untainted forum by individuals free of any conflict of interest and be given the opportunity to confront adverse witnesses and present a material, relevant and probative defense in a fair and equitable manner.