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Howard Gensler v. South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, No. G064067 · judgment November 3, 2025

estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)

Rule 10: circuit split argued

GVR risk 0%

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

Question presented

Does the First Amendment prevent a college from employing a harassment policy to terminate a faculty member for true college lecture statements, symbolic clothing, non-sexual, non-racial epithets, and profan ity? Does due process require establishment of jurisdic tion? Does equal protection prevent woke college admin istrators and judges from ignoring the law to termi nate a male community college faculty member?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Howard Gensler

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

Aug 26 2026
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
Apr 14 2026
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 10, 2026)
Appendix Petition Proof of Service Certificate of Word Count