Teacher

I.

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Christopher Teacher filed a complaint seeking a writ of

administrative mandate (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5)1 (first cause of action) against California Western School of Law (CWSL) challenging the procedures

that CWSL followed in expelling him from the law school.2 The trial court denied Teacher’s request for a writ and entered a judgment in favor of CWSL.3 Teacher appeals from the judgment. On appeal, he claims that CWSL failed to provide him with a fair administrative process in expelling him, among other contentions. The contours of the common law right to “fair process” Doe v. Regents of

University of California (2021) 70 Cal.App.5th 494, 513 (UC Davis),4 in

Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent references are to the Code of Civil Procedure.

As explained in part II.B.1, post, Teacher’s complaint contains several related causes of action.

In both its order denying Teacher’s request for a writ of administrative mandate and in its judgment, the trial court treated the first cause of action in Teacher’s complaint seeking a writ of administrative mandate as a petition for writ of administrative mandate. We also treat the first…