Kilcoyne v. Morgan

MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER

LARKINS, District Judge:

I

Plaintiff, an associate professor of history at East Carolina University, brought this suit under Title 42, U.S.C. Section 1983, for wrongful termination of his employment. Specifically, he alleges that he is a tenured professor and the defendants did not follow the detailed requirements for discharge of tenured faculty members specified by University regulations. He claims he has suffered embarrassment and injury to his professional good name, reputation, and standing among the academic community, has had imposed upon him a stigma of…