A federal judge cleared the way for a former in-house counsel for Chicago State University to pursue a due process claim.In a written opinion last week, U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood did not rule on the merits of Patrick B. Cage’s contention that the South Side school’s then-interim president and the members of its board of trustees did not offer to keep him on the job for 12 months after he was notified he was being fired as CSU’s general counsel.But Wood held Cage had adequately alleged the …