University administrators and officers who would have no reason to doubt the proceeding are not liable for a pre-firing due process claim.
Absent specific waiver, claims against the Board of Trustees of a state university are barred by the state's sovereign immunity.
Denial of summary judgment cannot be challenged on appeal, as the matter of law was fact-bound, and the questions went to trial.
Defts did not waive privilege on inadvertently disclosed document, as production was reasonably diligent, and request for claw-back was timely.
Although plaintiff had no obligation to renew objection to in limine ruling excluding certain evidence, there was insufficient proffer beforehand to preserve the issue for appeal. ("Deft construes?")
Although appeal was converted to interlocutory status on remand, and the court was therefore free to consider new documents, where these challenged the appellate holding, they needed to surmount the law of the case doctrine and the mandate doctrine.