Legal Opinion
Dr. Joseph Murray Hayse v. Charles T. Wethington, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 7, 1997No. 96-5005PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
SUMMARY
This case involves a § 1983 claim brought by Dr. Joseph Murray Hayse, a former professor of English at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, against thirty-two defendants, who are University administrators and members of the University’s Board of Trustees. Hayse asserts that the defendants violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights in their reconsideration of his application for tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. The issue before the Court is whether the District Court properly invoked the abstention doctrine of Younger v. Harris,…
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