The Federal Case — Bass v. TTUHSC¶

The case¶


Caption	Kevin N. Bass v. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, et al.
Case number	5:25-cv-00244-H-BV, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Lubbock Division
Filed	November 7, 2025
District Judge	James Wesley Hendrix
Magistrate Judge	Amanda R. Burch (pretrial referral)
Plaintiff	Kevin N. Bass, pro se
Jury demand	Yes
Public docket	CourtListener · Court opinions on govinfo.gov

Procedural timeline¶

Date	Event
Nov 7, 2025	Complaint filed with jury demand
Dec 11, 2025	First Amended Complaint filed (Dkt. 14) — the operative pleading
Dec 2025 – Jan 2026	All defendants served
Jan 21, 2026	Defendants' motion to dismiss filed (Dkt. 27), asserting sovereign and qualified immunity and failure to state a claim
Feb 15, 2026	Plaintiff's response to the motion to dismiss (Dkt. 33); motion for leave to file Third Amended Complaint (Dkt. 32)
Mar 2, 2026	Defendants' reply (Dkt. 38)
Mar 27, 2026	Order denying leave to amend (Dkt. 42): the court found the proposed amended complaint "violates Rule 8, thereby making amendment futile"
Mar 31, 2026	Renewed motion for leave to file a shortened Second Amended Complaint (Dkt. 43)
Apr 7, 2026	Motion to disqualify counsel for defendant Gibson (Dkt. 46)
Jul 14, 2026	Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendation of the magistrate judge (Dkt. 54)
Jul 28, 2026	Plaintiff's objections to the recommendation, renewed motion for leave to file the Second Amended Complaint (Dkt. 57), and supporting brief and appendix filed
Aug 5, 2026	Defendants' response in opposition to the renewed motion for leave (re Dkt. 57) filed (Dkt. 58)
Aug 20, 2026	Plaintiff's reply in support of the renewed motion for leave (Dkt. 59)
Sep 23, 2026	Order adopting the magistrate judge's Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendation and overruling the plaintiff's objections (Dkt. 60)
Sep 23, 2026	Order denying the renewed motion for leave to file a second amended complaint (Dkt. 61)
Sep 23, 2026	Final Judgment (Dkt. 62)

Filings (PDF)¶

Date	Document
2026-07-14	Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendation (Dkt. 54); diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text — 57 pages, 24 MB
2026-07-28	Plaintiff's Objections to the FCR · text
2026-07-28	Brief in Support of Objections; diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text
2026-07-28	Appendix in Support of Objections · text
2026-07-28	Renewed Motion for Leave to File Second Amended Complaint · text
2026-07-28	Brief in Support of Renewed Motion; diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text
2026-07-28	Proposed Second Amended Complaint; diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text
2026-03-27	Order Denying Leave to Amend (Dkt. 42) · text
2026-02	Third Amended Complaint (proposed, Dkt. 32); patient details, diagnosis terms and therapy details blacked out on this copy · text
2026-02	Response to Motion to Dismiss; diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text · Appendix (patient details, diagnosis terms and therapy details blacked out on this copy) · text
2026-01	Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. 27) · text

More docket documents (PDF)¶

The documents below are copies of entries on the court's docket, in docket order. This list is not the complete docket. The complete docket is available from the court through PACER.

Date	Dkt.	Filed by	Document
2025-11-07	1	Plaintiff	Complaint with jury demand; diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text
2025-11-07	2	Plaintiff	Certificate of Interested Persons · text
2025-11-07	5	Court	Notice and Instruction to Pro Se Party · text
2025-11-21	7	Court	Findings and Recommendations of the magistrate judge on the request for a preliminary injunction in the complaint (Dkt. 1) · text
2025-12-08	8	Plaintiff	Objections to the Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendation on the request for a preliminary injunction (re Dkt. 7); medical information and correspondence with another university withheld, and one passage on p. 16 and diagnosis terms blacked out, on this copy · text
2025-12-10	9	Court	Order Requiring Plaintiff to Register for Electronic Filing · text
2025-12-10	10	Court	Notice Regarding Service on Defendants · text
2025-12-10	11	Plaintiff	Appendix in support of objections (re Dkt. 8); medical information and correspondence with another university withheld, and diagnosis terms blacked out, on this copy · text
2025-12-10	12	Plaintiff	Notice of Filing Corrected Appendix in Support of Objections · text
2025-12-10	13	Plaintiff	Notice Regarding Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Objections and Brief in Support · text
2025-12-11	14	Plaintiff	First Amended Complaint with jury demand; diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text
2025-12-18	18	Court	Order on the motion for a preliminary injunction and the recommendation at Dkt. 7 · text
2025-12-24	20	Plaintiff	Notice Regarding Timeliness of Objections (re Dkt. 8) · text
2025-12-29	21	Court	Findings and Recommendations of the magistrate judge on the request for a preliminary injunction in the amended complaint (Dkt. 14) · text
2025-12-29	23	Court	Order denying the motion to expedite discovery (Dkt. 22) · text
2026-01-12	24	Plaintiff	Response to the Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendation (re Dkt. 21, 23) · text
2026-01-20	26	Plaintiff	Motion for Leave to File Second Amended Complaint · text
2026-01-20	26-2	Plaintiff	Proposed order (attachment to Dkt. 26) · text
2026-01-20	26-3	Plaintiff	Exhibit B, comparison of the First Amended Complaint and the proposed Second Amended Complaint (attachment to Dkt. 26) · text
2026-01-21	27-1	Defendants	Exhibit 1 to the motion to dismiss: Notice of Consolidation of Outstanding Student Matters, November 9, 2023 (street address redacted on this copy) · text
2026-01-21	27-2	Defendants	Exhibit 2 to the motion to dismiss: hearing notice of November 16, 2023 with the listed complaints; a third-party complaint and a patient-related report withheld and a complainant's name redacted on this copy · text
2026-01-21	27-4	Defendants	Exhibit 4 to the motion to dismiss: HSC OP 77.14, Establishing Reasonable Accommodations for Students with Disabilities · text
2026-01-21	27-5	Defendants	Exhibit 5 to the motion to dismiss: Hearing Process and Rules of Decorum, December 11, 2023 hearing · text
2026-01-21	27-9	Defendants	Exhibit 9 to the motion to dismiss: Student Handbook, Code of Professional Conduct 2023-2024 · text
2026-01-21	27-10	Defendants	Exhibit 10 to the motion to dismiss: letter of Interim Dean John C. DeToledo, December 29, 2023 · text
2026-01-21	27-11	Defendants	Exhibit 11 to the motion to dismiss: letter on the appeal of dismissal, January 11, 2024 (street address redacted on this copy) · text
2026-01-21	27-12	Defendants	Exhibit 12 to the motion to dismiss: memorandum of Interim Dean John C. DeToledo, January 12, 2024 (student ID redacted on this copy) · text
2026-01-22	28	Court	Order on the recommendation at Dkt. 21 · text
2026-02-12	29	Plaintiff	Unopposed Motion to Extend Time · text
2026-02-15	31	Plaintiff	Unopposed Motion to Amend/Correct the motion to extend time (Dkt. 29) · text
2026-02-15	32	Plaintiff	Motion to Amend/Correct the motion for leave (Dkt. 26) · text
2026-02-15	32-4	Plaintiff	Proposed order (attachment to Dkt. 32) · text
2026-02-28	36	Plaintiff	Notice of Errata and Motion for Leave to Substitute Corrected Exhibit Appendix · text
2026-03-02	38	Defendants	Reply in support of the motion to dismiss (Dkt. 27) · text
2026-03-09	39	Defendants	Response to the motions at Dkt. 26 and Dkt. 32 · text
2026-03-23	40	Plaintiff	Unopposed Motion for Leave to File Excess Pages · text
2026-03-23	40-1	Plaintiff	Proposed order (attachment to Dkt. 40) · text
2026-03-23	41	Plaintiff	Reply in support of the motion to amend (re Dkt. 32); diagnosis and therapy terms blacked out on this copy · text
2026-03-23	41-1	Plaintiff	Declaration of Kevin N. Bass (attachment to the reply at Dkt. 41) · text
2026-03-31	43	Plaintiff	Motion for Leave to File Second Amended Complaint · text
2026-03-31	43-2	Plaintiff	Proposed order (attachment to Dkt. 43) · text
2026-04-07	45	Plaintiff	Notice of Erratum (re Dkt. 43) · text
2026-04-07	46	Plaintiff	Motion to Disqualify Counsel for Defendant Gibson · text
2026-04-07	46-1	Plaintiff	Appendix in support of the motion to disqualify (attachment to Dkt. 46) · text
2026-04-21	48	Defendants	Response in Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Leave to File a Second Amended Complaint · text
2026-04-28	49	Plaintiff	Reply in support of the motion for leave to file a second amended complaint (re Dkt. 43) · text
2026-04-28	50	Defendants	Response in Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion to Disqualify Counsel for Defendant Darren G. Gibson · text
2026-05-13	51	Plaintiff	Reply in support of the motion to disqualify counsel for defendant Darren G. Gibson (re Dkt. 46) · text
2026-07-14	52	Court	Order Granting Late Response Brief · text
2026-07-14	53	Court	Order Denying Motion to Disqualify Counsel · text
2026-07-14	55	Court	Order Denying as Moot Motion to Amend (Dkt. 26) · text
2026-08-05	58	Defendants	Response to the renewed motion for leave (Dkt. 57) · text
2026-08-20	59	Plaintiff	Reply in support of the renewed motion for leave to file a second amended complaint (re Dkt. 57); diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text
2026-09-23	60	Court	Order adopting the Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendation (Dkt. 54); diagnosis terms blacked out on this copy · text
2026-09-23	61	Court	Order denying the renewed motion for leave (Dkt. 57) · text
2026-09-23	62	Court	Final Judgment · text