Simmons v. Budds

The plaintiff, Donald C. Simmons, is a tenured associate professor of anthropology serving at the University of Connecticut’s Hartford campus. He brought this action seeking mandamus and injunctive relief to compel the defendants, who are the university’s chairman of the board of trustees, the president, the provost, the dean of students and the registrar, to restore any grade marks given by the plaintiff to his students and subsequently changed without the plaintiff’s consent, and to refrain from granting course credit to any student enrolled in the plaintiff’s courses who did not take a…