Lynch v. Indiana State University Board of Trustees

Plaintiff-appellant Max W. Lynch (Lynch) brings this appeal from an adverse judgment in his action seeking reinstatement as an associate professor of mathematics at Indiana State University (I.S.U.). Lynch was terminated by the I.S.U. Board of Trustees as a result of his practice of reading aloud from the Bible at the beginning of each of his classes. 1 Lynch gave his students the opportunity to leave the room if they did not wish to hear the readings. Repeated efforts by I.S.U. to reach a mutually acceptable agreement concerning Lynch’s Bible reading were unsuccessful and dismissal…