student-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6943 Noah Duncan v. The Curators of the University of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-procedures due-process ferpa first-amendment fourteenth-amendment student-rights Whether a public university can use a student's disciplinary history from a private institution to impose sanctions, particularly when the history inv…
24-361 Speech First, Inc. v. Pamela Whitten, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (5) bias-response-team constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech student-rights university-policy Whether bias-response teams objectively chill students' speech
23-931 J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment school-official school-seizure seizure student-rights Whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amendment seizure should be ev…
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…
23-464 Matthew Boermeester v. Ainsley Carry, et al. California 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation cross-examination due-process educational-discipline fair-process student-rights title-ix witness-credibility Whether when an educational institution that is a recipient of Federal funds seeks to impose a lengthy suspension or expulsion on a student for allege…
23-392 Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause prohibit schools from maintaining separate bathrooms on the basis of students' biological sex
23-156 Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fourth Circuit 2023-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (9) bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration Do bias-response teams objectively chill students' free speech?
23-116 Rahim Caldwell v. Jason Anthony, et al. Rhode Island 2023-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) academic-dishonesty administrative-procedure due-process institutional-policy procedural-due-process property-interest public-education student-rights trespass-notice Whether affording no process, no process whatsoever satisfies the due process requirement where a protected property interest is involved, here a publ…
21-7285 Irina Collier v. University of California, Berkeley Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech online-communication school-discipline student-rights student-speech university-policies whistleblower-protections Whether the First Amendment's free speech protections apply to withdrawn students
21-656 John Oirya v. Brigham Young University Tenth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied 10th-circuit administrative-discretion due-process gender-bias judicial-review school-discipline student-rights substantial-evidence summary-judgment title-ix Should federal courts review school disciplinary decisions for substantial evidence of guilt?
21-5981 Ray Sarabian v. Halliburton Logging Services Fifth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech school-discipline student-rights Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech
20-1500 Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius v. American Public University System, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process education-program employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act flsa-interpretation free-labor-system labor-exploitation student-employee student-rights thirteenth-amendment At what point does a student become an 'employee' for an employer, due to the various types of abuses and exploitation of a free labor system, in an e…
20-6379 Brenda L. White v. St. Lawrence Catholic Schools Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP abuse administrative-liability assault civil-rights due-process educational-abuse parental-reporting retaliation school-misconduct student-rights Should teachers be allowed to hurt students?
20-255 Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L., a Minor, By and Through Her Father, Lawrence Levy and Her Mother, Betty Lou Levy Third Circuit 2020-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (36) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech school-discipline school-regulation student-rights student-speech Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District applies to off-campus student speech
19-7559 Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech school-discipline standing statutory-interpretation student-rights DOES the First Amendment protect the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech that does not cause a substantial disrupti…
18-1179 John Mbawe v. Ferris State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied ada ada-section-504 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process individualized-assessment interactive-process property-interest property-liberty-interest rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1973 student-rights university-dismissal Whether the interactive process is triggered when a University knows or should know of a student's disability, and of that student's desire to remain …