Williams v. Texas Tech. University Health Sciences Center

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

A professor claims that the decision to reduce his salary violated the Constitution. We affirm the district court’s grant of judgment as a matter of law against the professor.

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center hired Dr. Charles Williams as an associate professor and director of anesthesiology research in 1982 at an annual salary of $42,016.92, assigning him to the El Paso Regional Academic Health Center. The university granted him tenure in March 1986. In September 1987 he became director of research in the department of surgery and his…