Koch v. Rugg

BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This interlocutory appeal presents the issue of whether this court has jurisdiction to consider the denial of qualified immunity to administrators in a state university system for their decision not to employ a highly qualified Jewish professor for a temporary full-time teaching position over lesser qualified, non-Jewish temporary full-time instructors. In denying qualified immunity to the administrators, the district judge determined that questions concerning the administrators’ intentional racial discrimination in filling the temporary faculty positions prevented…