Legal Opinion
Nicholas Hess v. Board of Trustees of Southern
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 13, 2016No. 16-1064PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Nicholas Hess was suspended and later expelled from Southern Illinois University (SIU) after he was arrested for aggravated battery. Hess sued the Board of Trustees of the university, as well as several school administrators in their individual and official capacities, for violations of his procedural and substantive due-process rights. After dismissing some of the claims as barred by sovereign immunity, the district court awarded summary judgment to defendants on the remaining claims. We affirm.
I. Background
In the early morning of November 28, 2013, law-enforcement…
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