The Supreme Court has denied certiorari in Thomas Cooley Law School’s appeal from a Sixth Circuit ruling the ABA denied Cooley due process in refusing to accredit Cooley’s two proposed satellite campuses and in imposing sanctions on Cooley for operating the satellites without prior ABA approval. Thomas Cooley Law School v. American Bar Ass’n, No. 05-1891 (8/16/06):

This case arises from a dispute between the American Bar Association, the national accrediting body for law schools and its Consultant on Legal Education John Sebert (collectively “ABA”), and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School (“Cooley” or “the school”), an accredited law school located in Lansing, Michigan. The dispute centers on Cooley’s attempts to begin two satellite programs – one at Oakland University in Rochester (“Oakland campus”) and one in Grand Rapids (“Grand Rapids campus”). Cooley claims that the ABA denied Cooley due process in failing to accredit the two proposed satellites and in imposing sanctions on Cooley for operating the satellites without ABA prior acquiescence. The district court denied these claims and granted judgment to the defendants. As we find that the ABA afforded Cooley all due process in making its rulings, we affirm.