Trustees of Boston University v. Brown

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 | classwide relief appropriate only where there is a properly certified class | retroactive application of amendments to section 1016(a) was not unjust | state contract and federal discrimination claims joined