| 23-438 |
Austin Roy Clark v. Neeli Bendapudi, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-freedom civil-rights dobbs-decision dobbs-v-jackson due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation standing viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a medical student was expelled from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in retaliation for his expression and support of conservat… |
| 23-363 |
Stephen R. Porter v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
academic-freedom causal-connection employment-retaliation faculty-hiring first-amendment free-speech garcetti-doctrine garcetti-v-ceballos public-concern scholarship teaching |
Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the Fir… |
| 22-928 |
Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
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academic-freedom civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances scienter state-action state-actor university-funding |
When can unrestricted state funding to a university professor make them a state actor? |
| 22-144 |
Mahesh Khatri v. Ohio State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-freedom biosafety-regulations bioterrorism-act civil-rights disability-discrimination employee-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-exception whistleblower |
Is petitioner's reporting of misuse of 'select infectious agents' in BSL-2 lab protected speech? |
| 21-7655 |
Bruce Committe v. Vickie Gentry |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
academic-freedom civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure press-freedom standing |
What are the contours and principles of the First Amendment's free speech and freedom of the press protections (a/k/a Academic Freedom) in the academi… |
| 21-361 |
Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii |
Whether SCOTUS decisions on Eleventh Amendment, Title VII, Title VI, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, standing, Texas Tort Claims Act, and acade… |
| 21-145 |
Gordon College, et al. v. Margaret DeWeese-Boyd |
Massachusetts |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Relisted (7) |
academic-disciplines academic-freedom christian-education christian-mission faculty-integration first-amendment good-faith-characterization ministerial-exception religious-colleges religious-organization spiritual-formation |
Whether professors at religious colleges perform ministerial functions |
| 21-120 |
James Tracy v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom content-based content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether FAU's reporting policy is unconstitutionally vague, impermissibly chills speech, and may be facially challenged because it grants the public u… |
| 21-103 |
In Re Charles Landon Roberson |
|
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
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academic-freedom academic-progress civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process graduate-admission mandamus medical-disability retaliation standing university-liability |
Whether Plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by the university administration's actions, leading to a request for mandamus to admit Plainti… |
| 21-28 |
Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D. v. Virginia State University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment academic-freedom civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest public-university tenure-review |
Whether a non-tenured, but tenure-eligible, professor at a public university has a minimal property interest in a fair tenure review process under the… |
| 20-1698 |
Philip Palade, et al. v. Board of Trustees University of Arkansas System, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
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academic-freedom contract-rights declaratory-judgment due-process employment-contract property-rights retroactive-application standing standing-doctrine tenure-rights |
Whether the lower courts erred in holding that Petitioners lacked standing to seek declaratory relief concerning the retroactive application of newly-… |
| 20-920 |
Jeremy Collins v. Rebecca Putt, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-freedom college-classroom college-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech hazelwood-v-kuhlmeier tinker-standard tinker-v-des-moines viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether viewpoint discrimination in a college classroom is permissible under Hazelwood |
| 19-274 |
Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by foreclosing Petitioner's ability to challenge the constitutional validity of a public university's speech regulatio… |
| 19-172 |
Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review |
Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co… |