Legal Opinion
Charleston v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 20, 2013No. 13-2081PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Gerald Charleston, a former medical student, brought this § 1983 action after the University of Illinois College of Medicine dismissed him for unprofessional conduct. Charleston advances procedural due process, substantive due process, and equal protection claims against the university, its administrators, and his clinical instructors. The district court dismissed his constitutional claims at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage. It found that Charleston did not plead sufficient facts to establish that he had a protected property interest in his continued education at the medical…
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