Legal Opinion
Ruth Shirck v. Robert S. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 2, 1973No. 18790PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEVENS, Circuit Judge.
On April 1, 1969, defendants notified plaintiff that she would not be reemployed as a high school teacher for the 1969-1970 academic year. The question is whether that action deprived her of “property” or “liberty” protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Plaintiff received notice of the reasons for her nonrenewal as required by Ill.Rev.Stat. Ch. 122, § 24-10. As we explained when the case was first before us, those reasons “related to her performance in her work, particularly her failure to coordinate her teaching with that of the other German teacher so that students who…
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3Cited by37 opinions
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