Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Smith
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided October 31, 2013No. A13A1289; A13A1290; A13A1291PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McFadden, Judge.
Cassandra Smith, a former administrative employee at Albany State University, sued Everette Freeman and Abiodun Ojemakinde — respectively, the University’s president and vice president for academic affairs — for violating her constitutional and statutory *427rights. She argued, among other things, that they fired her without due process of law. She also sued the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, alleging, among other things, that her termination was in retaliation for her role as a whistleblower and that the Board of Regents breached her employment contract.…
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