Anthony Allen Noel, Cross-Appellant v. Colleen Andrus, Lafayette Parish School Board, Cross-Appellee

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Anthony Noel, a probationary school teacher, seeks reinstatement and damages from the Lafayette Parish School Board and its members for not renewing his contract on grounds of dishonesty. Noel argues that the School Board denied his federal constitutional rights to a pre-termi-nation hearing. Pendent to his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim, Noel argues that the School Board did not comply with La.Rev.Stat. § 17:442 in deciding not to renew his contract and that its reasons for doing so were false and defamatory. The district court, sitting without a jury, found…