January 2017

Admitted student status at public university held to be a property right that cannot be taken without due process of law

A federal court in Virginia has held that a student at a public university has a constitutionally-protected property interest in his place at the university and that he cannot be deprived of that right without due process of law under the fourteenth amendment. Doe v. Alger, 2016 WL 7429458 (W.D. Va. 2016).

The student faced disciplinary hearings arising oiut of...

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