higher-education
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-992 | Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (3) | corporate-status eleventh-amendment higher-education public-instrumentality sovereign-immunity state-arm | Under Missouri law, the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA) is a "public instrumentality of the State" serving the "esse… |
| 23-7362 | Tesae Harrington v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State | District of Columbia | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure precedent race-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 23-593 | S. O. v. Jay Hartzell, President, University of Texas at Austin, et al. | Texas | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process higher-education judicial-proceedings property-interest property-rights student-rights university-administration | Whether a college degree is a protected property interest that can only be revoked through judicial proceedings rather than through the unilateral act… |
| 23-592 | K. E. v. Denise M. Trauth, President, Texas State University, et al. | Texas | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment administrative-action administrative-law civil-procedure due-process higher-education judicial-proceedings legal-rights property-interest property-rights university-administration | Whether a college degree is a protected property interest that can only be revoked through judicial proceedings rather than through the unilateral act… |
| 23-6138 | John Doe v. Community College of Baltimore County, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection higher-education mental-health rehabilitation-act standing | 1. Does Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act prohibit federally funded colleges from forcing students off campus for being mentally ill? 2. Does the… |
| 22-6282 | Ileen Cain v. Mercy College, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights cybercrime department-of-education due-process free-speech higher-education sexual-assault title-ix vawa-reauthorization violence-against-women | In the matter of United State v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000) the Violence Against Women Act civil remedy was invalidated. In March of 2022 the Viole… |
| 22-5274 | Joseph Covell Brown v. Marcus Porter, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process higher-education ministerial-tasks procedural-due-process qualified-immunity | Whether the right to procedural due process in disciplinary proceedings involving suspension, expulsion or loss of housing in publicly funded institut… |
| 21-860 | Jane Doe v. Timothy White, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | due-process fourteenth-amendment goss-standard goss-v-lopez higher-education liberty-interest procedural-due-process property-interest qualified-immunity | When State actors threaten to deprive individuals of liberty or property, the Fourteenth Amendment requires procedural protections that comport with m… |
| 21-707 | Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (14)Relisted (3) | admissions affirmative-action civil-rights diversity educational-diversity equal-protection grutter-precedent higher-education higher-education-admissions race-conscious-admissions race-neutral-alternatives | 1. Should this Court overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in… |
| 20-1199 | Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College | First Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (32)Relisted (4) | affirmative-action asian-american-discrimination civil-rights equal-protection higher-education race-based-admissions strict-scrutiny title-vi | 1. Should this Court overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in… |
| 20-352 | The Paine College v. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | accreditation administrative-procedure common-law common-law-due-process conflict-of-interest decision-making-body due-process federal-law higher-education procedural-rights quorum | Whether under federal law a college's right of common law due process is violated in its accreditation removal proceeding when one-half of the members… | |
| 20-5308 | Tammy Horton v. The Methodist University, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-accommodations disability-rights due-process equal-protection higher-education rehab-act rehabilitation-act | Whether the United States District and Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit are obligated to confirm an institution of higher learning, subject to … |
| 20-63 | Samuel Pierce v. Yale University, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response Waived | admissions-process antitrust bakke constitutional-law grutter higher-education medical-school sherman-act student-admissions | Whether this Court should overrule its holdings in Bakke and Grutter that admission of students to professional schools is constitutionally protected … |
| 19-600 | Jon Krakauer v. Clayton T. Christian, Montana Commissioner of Higher Education | Montana | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Amici (1) | civil-rights due-process ferpa free-speech gonzaga-v-doe higher-education judicial-discretion privacy privacy-rights public-interest public-records student-privacy student-records university-athlete | In the process of writing a book about sexual assault on a college campus, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, Petitioner and Aut… |
| 18-1105 | Samuel Pierce v. Yale University, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education race-based-discrimination stare-decisis university-admissions | Whether the Court should overrule its holdings in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and Grutter v. Bollinger that professional school a… |
| 18-6376 | Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing | Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei… |
| 18-120 | Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness | I. Whether Fourteenth Amendment due process rights should be denied to tenured professors when two universities (The University of Texas-Pan American … |