academic-freedom
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 23-438 | Austin Roy Clark v. Neeli Bendapudi, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response Waived | academic-freedom civil-rights dobbs-decision dobbs-v-jackson due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation standing viewpoint-discrimination | This case involves the expulsion of a medical student from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in retaliation for his expression and suppo… |
| 23-363 | Stephen R. Porter v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | academic-freedom causal-connection employment-retaliation faculty-hiring first-amendment free-speech garcetti-doctrine garcetti-v-ceballos public-concern scholarship teaching | I. Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the … |
| 22-928 | Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | academic-freedom civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances scienter state-action state-actor university-funding | 1. When effectively unrestricted research funding —requiring nothing more than a yearly progress update —by the state enables a party such as a Univer… | |
| 22-144 | Mahesh Khatri v. Ohio State University, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | academic-freedom biosafety-regulations bioterrorism-act civil-rights disability-discrimination employee-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-exception whistleblower | As of August 1, 2022, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which is caused by a corona virus called SARS-CoV-2, a select infectious agent, more than 6… |
| 21-7655 | Bruce Committe v. Vickie Gentry | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | academic-freedom civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure press-freedom standing | What are the contours and principles of the First Amendment's free speech and freedom of the press protections (a/k/a Academic Freedom) in the academi… |
| 21-361 | Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii | 1. Whether this Court's decisions interpreting the Eleventh Amendment, see e.g. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer; Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Feeney, ba… | |
| 21-145 | Gordon College, et al. v. Margaret DeWeese-Boyd | Massachusetts | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Amici (10)Relisted (7) | academic-disciplines academic-freedom christian-education christian-mission faculty-integration first-amendment good-faith-characterization ministerial-exception religious-colleges religious-organization spiritual-formation | In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. MorrisseyBerru , 140 S. Ct. 2049 (2020), this Court instructed lower courts to consider a variety of factors in det… |
| 21-120 | James Tracy v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | academic-freedom content-based content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine viewpoint-discrimination | Florida Atlantic University has a reporting policy that requires its faculty and staff to disclose outside professional activities to the university… | |
| 21-103 | In Re Charles Landon Roberson | 2021-07-26 | Denied | academic-freedom academic-progress civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process graduate-admission mandamus medical-disability retaliation standing university-liability | In your capacity as; Presiding Justice over the Fourth Circuit I, as Plaintiff in Roberson v. Hanesbrands, and Appellant In Re: Roberson (or Roberson … | ||
| 21-28 | Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D. v. Virginia State University, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment academic-freedom civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest public-university tenure-review | 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 … |
| 20-1698 | Philip Palade, et al. v. Board of Trustees University of Arkansas System, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | academic-freedom contract-rights declaratory-judgment due-process employment-contract property-rights retroactive-application standing standing-doctrine tenure-rights | Whether the lower courts erred in holding that Petitioners lacked standing to seek declaratory relief concerning the retroactive application of newly-… | |
| 20-920 | Jeremy Collins v. Rebecca Putt, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | academic-freedom college-classroom college-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech hazelwood-v-kuhlmeier tinker-standard tinker-v-des-moines viewpoint-discrimination | 1. Whether or not viewpoint discrimination in a college classroom is permissible under the Supreme Court's ruling in Hazelwood Sch. Dist. v. Kuhlmeier… |
| 19-274 | Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness | Petitioner, Dr. Teresa Buchanan, was terminated from her tenured position at Louisiana State University under the school's sexual harassment policies.… |
| 19-172 | Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas | Kansas | 2019-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review | Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co… |