Stern v. Roberts

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA EASTERN DIVISION DR. MICHAEL L. STERN, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) CASE NO. 3:18-CV-807-WKW ) [WO] STEVEN LEATH, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Michael L. Stern, Ph.D., is a tenured economics professor at Auburn University and an eight-year former chair of the Department of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts. In late 2013, Dr. Stern learned that a substantial percentage of scholarship student-athletes, particularly those in the football program, were majoring in public…