Ashley v. University of Louisville

LESTER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying injunctive relief and dismissing appellant’s cause of action due to lack of jurisdiction.

In April, 1979, David Ashley was employed as a non-tenured assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Louisville for an initial term of two years. Contained in the school’s letter of notification to Ashley was the following:

Your placement on step al, second year, will make you eligible to be considered for a normal merit action during 1979-80, the results of which would be effective 1 July 1980. You will be subject to a pretenure appraisal…