Dr. Kenneth Levi v. University of Texas at San Antonio

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

After a state university assistant professor had been denied tenure, he sued the university and several officials, invoking § 1983 and asserting that the university had denied him procedural due process and equal protection of the laws in its tenure decision and had conspired to silence the dissent of faculty members who had favored his candidacy. The district court directed a verdict at the close of testimony on the conspiracy claim. The jury then found that the professor had no property interest that would entitle him to the protection of procedural due…