Legal Opinion
Thomas Conward v. The Cambridge School Committee
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 14, 1999No. 98-1495PublishedCited by 170 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case involves the discharge of a tenured public school teacher for unbecoming conduct (which the superintendent of schools reasonably classified as sexual harassment). The ousted doeént, plaintiff-appellant Thomas Conward, sued the Cambridge School Committee and the superintendent, Máry Lou McGrath, asseverating, inter alia, that they had meted out dis-criminatorily harsh discipline because of his race (Conward is an African American), and had violated both the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause. The district court granted summary judgment in the defendants’…
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