Legal Opinion
Mahavongsanan v. Hall
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 26, 1976No. 75-3146PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYER, Circuit Judge:
Srisuda Mahavongsanan sued the Dean of the School of Education of Georgia State University, various professors, and the University’s Board of Regents, asserting a deprivation of her civil rights for their arbitrary and capricious refusal to award her a master’s degree in education. She claimed denial of procedural and substantive due process, and breach of contract. The district court permanently enjoined the defendants from withholding the degree plaintiff sought. We reverse.
The defendants contend that the district court erred in applying due process standards to purely…
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3Cited by73 opinions
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