Former Student Revives Suit Over Cheating at Texas Law School

A former law student convinced a Texas appeals court that his suit alleging his law school’s failure to fully investigate a cheating scandal hurt his grade-point average and resulted in him being dismissed for poor grades deserves to be reheard.

The Texas’ First Court of Appeals said that Ivan Villarreal’s suit had enough evidence to show that his “due course of law” rights under the Texas Constitution were violated in multiple ways.

A lower trial court tossed Villarreal’s suit against Texas Southern University in October 2017 on jurisdictional grounds, prompting an appeal.

Villarreal was was dismissed from the law school ...