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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
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
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
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 05 2026Petition DENIED.
- Aug 26 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Apr 14 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 10, 2026)