Robert R. Thonen v. Leo W. Jenkins, President of East Carolina University

Defendants, various officers of East Carolina University, have appealed from an interlocutory order of the district court directing that the plaintiff who was indefinitely suspended as a student by the University Board be afforded an administrative appeal of the suspension order to the Review Board, the reviewing body established under the University’s rules governing student discipline to review actions of the University Board. The alleged error is that plaintiff failed to initiate review within the time prescribed by the rules and that, therefore, the district court abused its discretion…