Frye v. Memphis State University

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This appeal has been initiated by Roland L. Frye, Plaintiff-Appellant, a tenured faculty professor at Memphis State University, Defendant-Appellee, based upon a Shelby County Chancery Court decree assessing damages for his wrongful termination by the Defendant. The dispositive issue before the Court is whether the Chancellor erred in limiting the Plaintiffs damages to one year after the wrongful termination on the basis that the Plaintiff failed to seek comparable employment between the time of the wrongful discharge and the time of reinstatement as a tenured…