George W. Cornwell v. Chester H. Ferguson and D. Burke Kibler, III

FAY, Circuit Judge:

The questions before us are whether the district court properly abstained and stayed the action in federal court pending the disposition of a previously filed similar state court action and whether the state court’s decision then constituted res judicata to warrant the federal court’s granting the defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment. We find abstention and res judicata were proper, and therefore affirm.

Plaintiff had been notified that he would not receive tenure as an associate professor at the University of Florida and that his annual employment contract would not be…