No. 24-7437

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2025-06-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: conflict-of-interest due-process harvard-university judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-fairness
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a presiding justice should have recused himself from a case involving Harvard University due to extensive connections and potential conflict of interest

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether a presiding justice presiding over a case involving Harvard University as a defendant should have recused himself from the case due to the extensive connections with the Defendant and conflict of interest? 2. Whether a judge should upon request by a plaintiff disclose the full scope of his financial and non-financial connections to a defendant? 3. Whether a false, uncorroborated, and defamatory report to the national police, i.e., the Federal Bureau of Investigation, by the defendant Harvard University concerning the plaintiff should be considered as a activity?

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-24
Waiver of President and Fellows of Harvard College of right to respond submitted.
2025-06-24
Waiver of right of respondent President and Fellows of Harvard College to respond filed.
2025-06-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 16, 2025)

Attorneys

Kaveh Afrasiabi
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi — Petitioner
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi — Petitioner
President and Fellows of Harvard College
William Walter FickFick & Marx LLP, Respondent
William Walter FickFick & Marx LLP, Respondent