Legal Opinion
Cotton v. Jackson
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 7, 2000No. 99-10096PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Per curiam
Defendant, Dr. Edward D. Jackson, Jr., appeals from the district court’s denial of his motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity on Plaintiffs procedural due process claim against Jackson. Because we conclude that Plaintiff has failed to state a procedural due process claim, we reverse.
BACKGROUND
Plaintiff, Dr. Richard Cotton, was employed as the Director of Continuing Education for South Georgia College (SGC). In June 1997, two employees of SGC filed complaints with the EEOC and the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity charging that their supervisor, Cotton, had…
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