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Matthew Jacobson v. Butterfly Blaise, et al.

Paid petition · Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Department, No. 527084 · judgment September 12, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 5, 2020
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

Whether the Due Process, Equal Protection and Privilege and Immunities Clauses of the United States Constitution, and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial applicable to New York through the Fourteenth Amendment, require that an accused charged with what otherwise would be a criminal offense in a statutorily mandated student disciplinary proceeding at a public university be afforded a meaningful opportunity to be heard and judged by objective evidence in a fair, impartial, unbiased and untainted forum by individuals free of any conflict of interest and be given the opportunity to confront adverse witnesses and present a material, relevant and probative defense in a fair and equitable manner.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Barry S. Jacobson
Law Offices of Barry S. Jacobson

For respondent
Victor Paladin
New York State Attorney General Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 22 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Jul 15 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Butterfly Blaise, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jun 18 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 23, 2020)