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Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 18-1560 · judgment January 3, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

I. Did the NH District Court abuse its discretion in dismissing a proper Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, when it incorrectly claimed a “scoured” record did not contain any evidence of protected conduct under the Rehabilitation Act, when in fact no less than three instances of protected conduct existed? II. By turning a blind eye to the Baylor standard re deliberate indifference and failure to investigate Title IX violations, did the NH District Court hold Petitioner Isaacs to an incorrect standard when it required him to demonstrate as a prerequisite that the harassment occurred due to his sex, before holding Dartmouth accountable for not investigating an alleged assault? III. Did the NH Board of Medicine violate Section 1983, and Petitioner’s Fourteenth Amendment due process rights, when it withheld key exonerating evidence from an evidentiary hearing that resulted in the nationwide publication of a false Board reprimand? Preliminary Introduction This case concerns a fourteen-year legal dispute between Petitioner Jeffrey Isaacs, a top ranked medical school graduate, and various institutions and individuals who, thus far, have succeeded in delaying or permanently ending his dream of being a doctor. In 2005, Petitioner was enrolled at University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. A fellow student who boasted of being admitted to USC

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Keith Allen Mathews
AWP Legal

For respondent
Pierre A. Chabot
Devine Millimet & Branch, PA

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 12 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. May 14 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Trustees of Dartmouth College to respond filed.
  4. May 13 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent NH Board of Medicine to respond filed.
  5. May 13 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Dartmouth-Hichcock Medical Center to respond filed.
  6. Apr 03 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 10, 2019)