Saturday, June 21, 2014

I want to be a Gator and I would appreciate your suggestions -- Age Discrimination At the University of Florida Environmental and Land Use Planning Law (ELUPL) LL.M. Program

I have today filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights against the University of Florida Levin College of Law's Environmental and Land Use Planning Law (ELUPL) LL.M. program. On June 6, 2014, ELUPL refused to admit me for the fifth time since December 2010. UF refuses to give a reason. But one UF professor and my mentor, former U.S. Department of Labor Chief Administrative Law Judge Nahum Litt (1979-1995) say it is because I am "too old" (57).
Since 2010, UF has not provided statistics on the ages of its LL.M. program applicants, admittees and graduates.
For its J.D. program, UF's current oldest student is 45.
I find no evidence in UF's promotional brochures that any ELUPL LL.M. graduate was over the age of 32.
As Thomas Jefferson said, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind" of humankind. UF refuses to admit an environmental activist to its environmental program and won't even meet with me.
How gauche.
How louche.
How wrong.
I want to be a Gator, and I would appreciate your suggestions.
We shall overcome!

6 comments:

class of 2004 said...

Did you ever think maybe it has nothing to do with your age and more to do with their law program not wanting a disbarred exlawyer?

Ed Slavin said...

Does a disbarred ex-lawyer have rights to access the educational system to help get his license back? Does a state university have a right to be so snooty as to refuse to meet, interview or explain anything to a disbarred ex-lawyer? Did you know that UF's legal clinics are named after a disbarred ex-lawyer? Virgil Hawkins was an African-American, who lost his law license due to racism. Do you have a clue as to why my license was taken? Would you care to identify yourself and give me a call and treat me like a person (and not an object of scorn, derision and obloquy) ?
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Anonymous said...

To Class of 2004: Has it ever occurred to you that Mr. Slavin has done more for this community in the arena of environmental law as a disbarred lawyer than anyone else?

Your call-out is petty minded. Mr. Slavin is more than that one element. You are Class of 2004, UF Law School? Why don't you assist him in at least getting answers to his questions from admissions?

Ed Slavin said...

Alas, the poor poster in quo is not a lawyer, not a UF graduate. He writes from Petaluma, California. This is apparently a very disgruntled disaster remediation contractor, who lost his California contractor's license. Why? A small woman-owned construction services company here in St. Augustine, Florida blew the whistle on him on his attempt to cheat it out of more than $224,000 in Texas after Hurricane Ike. There was a Los Angeles Times investigative report on his company -- 80 column inches. His California contractor's license was revoked. He is obsessed with me (naturally). I wear his scorn as a badge of honor.

Ed Slavin said...

Alas, the poor poster in quo is not a lawyer, not a UF graduate. He writes from Petaluma, California. This is apparently a very disgruntled disaster remediation contractor, who lost his California contractor's license. Why? A small woman-owned construction services company here in St. Augustine, Florida blew the whistle on him on his attempt to cheat it out of more than $224,000 in Texas after Hurricane Ike. There was a Los Angeles Times investigative report on his company -- 80 column inches. His California contractor's license was revoked. He is obsessed with me (naturally). I wear his scorn as a badge of honor.

Ed Slavin said...

Alas, the poor poster in quo is not a lawyer, not a UF graduate. He writes from Petaluma, California. This is apparently a very disgruntled disaster remediation contractor, who lost his California contractor's license. Why? A small woman-owned construction services company here in St. Augustine, Florida blew the whistle on him on his attempt to cheat it out of more than $224,000 in Texas after Hurricane Ike. There was a Los Angeles Times investigative report on his company -- 80 column inches. His California contractor's license was revoked. He is obsessed with me (naturally). I wear his scorn as a badge of honor.