Baylor University v. Coley

in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice O’NEILL, Justice BRISTER, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Respondent Betty A. Coley contends that her former employer, petitioner Baylor University, by reassigning her responsibilities to others and thus effectively demoting her, breached her contract and forced her to resign from her tenured faculty position. The trial court rendered judgment for Baylor based on the jury’s failure to find that Coley had been constructively discharged, defined in the charge as “makfing] conditions so intolerable that a reasonable person in…