Graney v. Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin System

Plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Dane County Circuit Court entered December 6, 1978, granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment. The court’s order dismissed plaintiffs’ action seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief for seventeen University of Wisconsin System tenured faculty members laid off or terminated by the defendants.

The plaintiffs were tenured members of the University of Wisconsin System under sec. 37.31, Stats. (1971). In the spring of 1973, the Board of Regents determined that several campuses of the University of Wisconsin System were experiencing a…