Ruth E. Buck, Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee v. The Board of Education of the City of New York, Defendant-Appellant-Appellee, Dr. Bernard E. Donovan

It is conceded by all that, as the majority opinion states, “Mrs. Buck’s position as a *321tenured guidance counselor is indisputably a property interest encompassed within the fourteenth amendment’s due process protection” and that “[her] interest in retaining her job was ... a strong one.” The majority and I are also in agreement that the federal courts should avoid “excessive interference” with constitutionally adequate local procedures, a proposition with which Judge Judd below expressed concurrence. He wrote:

The question is not . . . the discretion of the Board of Education in determining…