Charleston v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the student’s complaint must be specific about the source of this implied contract, the exact promises the university made to the student, and the promises the student made in return’’
• holding that a plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to state-mandated process
• reaffirming that the Seventh Circuit does not recognize a stand-alone property interest in higher education at a state university
• finding that the plaintiff failed to plead a property interest where he did “not describe the specific promises that the university made to him through its disciplinary policy”
• stating “our circuit has rejected the proposition that an individual has a stand-alone property interest in an education at a state university.”
• affirming dismissal because the facts upon which plaintiff attempted to rely were not alleged in his complaint

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).