Brown v. State Ex Rel. State Board of Higher Education

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1] Richard Brown appealed from a district court judgment granting the State’s motion to' dismiss his complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Brown sued the State of North Dakota by and through the State Board of Higher Education alleging the Dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Dakota was without the authority to revoke Brown’s doctoral degree. The district court concluded Brown did not exhaust his administrative remedies and, as a result, the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. We affirm.

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[¶ 2] In August 2003, Brown…