Ramsi Woodcock
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Individual Defendants’ Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings
The individual defendants moved for judgment on the pleadings.
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Order on Temporary Restraining Order
The court declined to halt the investigation for now. It required the University to notify the court when the investigator’s report is complete and to give me ten days’ notice before taking any disciplinary action. It also asked the University to reconsider banning me from the law school, noting that the record contains no evidence…
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Reply in Support of a Temporary Injunction
Against a thicket of violated rules, the University offers only that a statute gives its Board of Trustees exclusive jurisdiction over appointments and that the Board delegated that power to the President. But exclusive jurisdiction over appointments cannot authorize the University to violate the Kentucky Constitution or the contracts it has voluntarily entered into.
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University’s Notice of Exclusive Concurrent Jurisdiction
The University asked the state court to decline to hear my claims on the ground that my federal case was filed first.
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Sixth Circuit Denies the University’s Petition for Rehearing
The University petitioned for panel rehearing. The Sixth Circuit denied the petition, and Judge Gilman concurred to say that the opinion leaves the District Court free to decide how to proceed on remand. The same day, the court denied my motion for immediate issuance of the mandate. Update: The mandate issued on September 18, 2026.
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Verified Complaint and Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order
The University left the Fayette court’s order transferring the case to Franklin Circuit Court unentered for a month. With the investigation resuming, and with the automatic stay on issuance of the Sixth Circuit’s mandate leaving me no way to seek a return to teaching in federal court for the fall semester, I refiled the same…
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Response to Motion to Dismiss
The University argues that I lack standing because the rights I assert belong to the faculty as a whole. I explain that my expressive-association, contract, and other claims are personal to me.
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Notice of New Development
I told the Sixth Circuit that, as soon as it ruled, the University ended the pause in the investigation it had maintained throughout the appeal, and that the investigator refused to extend my deadline to answer her questions.
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Motion for Immediate Issuance of the Mandate
I asked the Sixth Circuit to speed return of the case to the District Court to allow the District Court enough time to return me to teaching this semester.
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Opinion
The Sixth Circuit reversed the District Court’s decision to abstain from hearing the case and remanded to the District Court to decide my motion to return to teaching during the pendency of the litigation. Here is a recording of oral argument in the case, which was held on July 28, 2026 (source).