Legal Opinion
Whiting v. University of Southern Mississippi
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 2, 2006No. 04-60956PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS, Circuit Judge:
Dr. Melissa Whiting was a non-tenured professor at the University of Southern Mississippi (“USM”), whose annual evaluations and third-year review were consistently excellent. Nonetheless, she was denied tenure and promotion at the end of her sixth year at USM after participating in the tenure application process laid out in the Faculty Handbook. Dr. Whiting alleges that the denial arose from ill will between her and her department chair, Dr. Thames, the daughter of the USM president. Accordingly, Dr. Whiting sued on several constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983…
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