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Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 16-41565 · judgment January 3, 2018


Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

I. Whether Fourteenth Amendment due process rights should be denied to tenured professors when two universities (The University of Texas-Pan American and The University of Texas at Brownsville) merge? II. Whether the requirement that tenured professors at the merged higher education institution (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) not have any disciplinary record within seven years of application is rational under an equal protection analysis? III. Whether the phrases “as many” and “prudent and practical” in the Act that provided “the board of regents shall facilitate the employment at the university created by this Act of as many faculty and staff of the abolished universities as is prudent and practical” are unconstitutionally vague on their face?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William Daniel Mount Jr.
Dale & Klein, L.L.P.

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 01 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 08 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
  3. Jul 30 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Bailey, et al. to respond filed.
  4. May 07 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 27, 2018)