No. 19-1405

Matthew Jacobson v. Butterfly Blaise, et al.

Lower Court: New York
Docketed: 2020-06-23
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: confrontation-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fundamental-fairness privilege-and-immunities public-university student-disciplinary-proceeding student-discipline
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

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.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

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

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-07-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-07-15
Waiver of right of respondent Butterfly Blaise, et al. to respond filed.
2020-06-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 23, 2020)

Attorneys

Butterfly Blaise, et al.
Victor PaladinNew York State Attorney General Office, Respondent
Matthew Jacobson
Barry S. JacobsonLaw Offices of Barry S. Jacobson, Petitioner