Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al.

Dr. Isaacs respectfully petitions the United States Supreme Court to address the following questions presented and grant a writ of certiorari.

1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously determined that a student cannot state a retaliation claim under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, because “no adverse employment action” would exist.

2. Whether USC’s continuous online broadcast of Petitioner’s sealed and acquitted academic record represents an open-ended RICO predicate act that tolls the statute of limitations.

3. Whether the courts below erred in finding that a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher entertainment lawyer’s decision to impose a campus ban against a former University of Southern California medical student warranted protection by the anti-SLAPP statute, and that the campus ban did not violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment because USC is a private school.

4. Whether the factual allegations of the Complaint, accepted as true as they must, preclude the District Court’s reliance on waiver, res judicata, and the statute of limitations to dismiss Plaintiff-Appellant’s claims against Defendant-Appellee University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.