Jun Xiao v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al.
Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be grated.
Whether the lower courts, given the facts, wrongfully employed and misapplied a heightened scrutiny standard rather than the deferential Turner standard? See Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (1987).
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments can prevail a state status (Minn. Stat. § 606.01) when deciding whether students can be awarded monetary relief for their property damages (education right is a property right).
Whether students at a state-owned university should have the same federal legal rights as students at private universities when state-owned university students suffered property loss.
Whether maliciously acting government officials should be awarded "qualified immunity" in terms of First Amendment retaliation.
Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted