The U.S. Supreme Court denied 57-year-old Michael Kamps a hearing in his age discrimination case against Baylor University and unnamed members of its law school admissions and scholarship committees.

A trial court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit had dismissed Kamps' claims. Kamps had alleged that Baylor and the law school committees had engaged in age discrimination when they denied him admission to the law school for a fall semester and failed to offer him a scholarship he had sought.

In a 2012 complaint, Kamps alleged that they discriminated against him on the basis of his age because they used his undergraduate grade point average. He alleged that because he earned his undergraduate degree in 1979, his GPA reflects none of the “grade inflation” that has taken place nationwide at universities since the late 1970s.