I was expelled from a private Catholic college a few months ago. During the process, the college bent, broke, or ignored dozens of rules because the administration was (I know this sounds crazy) out to get me. I have hundreds of pages of email correspondence, hours of audio recordings, and dozens of pages of reports from the college showing very clearly that they did not handle this correctly.

My only "crime" was hanging up unauthorized religious posters quoting Catholic teaching about an issue present at the college. Remember this is a Catholic school. After a verbal argument with some administration members, I was suspended for "posing a threat to the community". The college even called the police to escort me off campus with the suspension letter.

They then prevented me from accessing all electronic resources (email, online coursework, grades, etc), even though they said I needed to contact my professors to do schoolwork off-campus. The suspension said I could not contact the college in any way, even through a third party. I appealed the suspension twice, because after the first time they told me the reply I got wasn't actually a response. The second time they refused to lift the suspension, not because it was valid (it wasn't) but because they claimed I violated it.

They pursued a student conduct case, a Title IX case, and an equal opportunity employment case against me. Part of their argument involved citing ABC News to show I wasn't Catholic, in an attempt to discredit any potential case for religious discrimination. Several times they told me outright lies while almost simultaneously supplying me with direct evidence of the lie. They missed required deadlines, only to tell me they had extended them when I brought it up. Those changed deadlines meant I didn't have time to find witnesses. They changed the charges against me without no notification at 4pm the day before a hearing. At one of the hearings (for the Equal Opportunity investigation), I was told that my advisor was not allowed to talk to me, and that we must pass notes back and forth. There is no such rule in either of the rule versions they selectively changed between when it was convenient.

There's even more than this. I compiled a searchable archive and interactive timeline of all the evidence against the college, because there's so much of it it's hard to keep track of it all otherwise. I have audio of college officials admitting on record there is no precedent for this and their rules don't really allow for this situation.

tl;dr: I was expelled from a Catholic school for being too Catholic. The college screwed up big time and self-documented their violations along the way.

Now the question:

What am I supposed to do when the college is a large part of the city (and state) community, and no lawyer will get back to me, except to say they have a conflict of interest or plain don't want to touch it? I have literally contacted over 50 lawyers, and only about six ever got back to me. I even paid a $300 consultation fee to a national law firm specializing in education law, only to have it refunded because they claimed a conflict of interest before I had a chance to talk to anyone above a secretary. Not a single one has said I don't have a case, but a friend-of-a-friend who is a lawyer said I probably do have a case but nobody would want to take it (her included).