Legal Opinion
Jeffries v. Harleston
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 4, 1993No. 92 Civ. 4180 (KC)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
CONBOY, District Judge:
A federal jury has found that City University, without justification, punished a tenured professor on its faculty for an off-campus speech he had given, by removing him as Chairman of his academic department. It is unequivocally clear, under our Constitution, and the law enunciated on the subject by the United States Supreme Court, and in the light of the factual trial record developed in this case, 'that the action taken by the University was constitutionally impermissible. This is and must be the case, in spite of the hateful, poisonous and…
2Cases cited53 opinions
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. DoyleSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. MyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Perry v. SindermannSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Jeffries v. HarlestonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994
- Jeffries v. HarletonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994