Biscar v. University of Wyoming Board of Trustees

From 1969 until 1975, Jean Biscar, plaintiff-appellant, was employed as an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming. The University interprets the employment as consisting of a series of temporary appointments, while Mr. Biscar contends the employment was represented to him as a “tenure-track”1 appointment. Biscar was terminated without a formal tenure hearing, whereupon he filed suit in a state district court against defendants-appellees, members of the University’s Board of Trustees, in their official capacities, and the University President in his official capacity. Biscar asked…