Legal Opinion
Williams v. Northwestern University
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided August 28, 1986No. 86-0995PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
Plaintiff, Dr. Robert M. Williams, brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against defendants, Northwestern University, Dr. Roy Patterson (chairman of the University’s department of medicine), and Dr. Nathaniel I. Berlin (chief of the school’s medical oncology section). Plaintiff alleged that defendants are forcing him to resign from his position of tenured professor at the medical school by interfering with his position.
Plaintiff sought (1) an injunction ordering defendants to cease certain alleged harassment and to return various privileges that they allegedly took from him,…
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- AMERICAN ASSOC. UNIV. PROF v. Bloomfield CollegeNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1975
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