Chitwood v. Feaster

MAXWELL, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, all teachers by profession, are seven nontenured members of the Fairmont State College faculty, whose teaching contracts were not renewed for the academic year 1971-1972. They allege that they were teachers at the college for periods ranging from two to four years, and that the defendants denied each of the plaintiffs a renewal of his teaching contract without any proper reason or justification, and that the action of nonrenewal was arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable and discriminatory. They also allege that each of plaintiffs was denied the right of a…