No. 21-28
Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D. v. Virginia State University, et al.
Response Waived
Tags: 14th-amendment academic-freedom civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest public-university tenure-review
Latest Conference:
2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. 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
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution, as has been recognized by the Sixth
Circuit in Purisch v. Tennessee Tech. Univ., 76 F.3d
1414, 1423 (6th Cir. 1996).
Question Presented (AI Summary)
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 Fourteenth Amendment
Docket Entries
2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-07-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-07-26
Waiver of right of respondent Virginia State University, et al. to respond filed.
2021-07-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 9, 2021)
Attorneys
Virginia State University, et al.
Michelle Shane Kallen — Virginia Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D.
Richard Franklin Hawkins III — The Hawkins Law Firm, PC, Petitioner