Trustees of Boston University v. Brown

How later courts describe this case

• holding that potential issues not supported by argument in appellant’s brief are deemed abandoned
• declining to consider potential allegations in proposed complaint because fraudulent joinder is determined on basis of pleadings at time removal was filed
• upholding New Jersey's complete ban on campaign contributions by gaming interests; Louisiana's statute is based on this, see pp. 506-507, infra
• awarding-tenure under Title VII to professor against whom defendant university was found to have discriminated
• "Academic freedom does not include the freedom to discriminate against tenure candidates on the basis of sex and other impermissible grounds."
• as quoted in In Review of Health Care Admin. Bd. v. Finley, 168 N.J.Super. 152, 167, 402 A.2d 246 (App.Div.1979), aff'd, 83 N.J. 67, 415 A.2d 1147 (1980)
• "classwide relief ... is appropriate only where there is a properly certified class”
• classwide relief appropriate only where there is a properly certified class