Zimmerer v. Spencer

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This is a teacher discharge case. The District Court found that Dr. Zimmerer, a teacher at San Jacinto Junior College, in Texas, was entitled to procedural due process because, though non-tenured, she had “an expectancy of reemployment under the policies and practices of the institution” (emphasis added). It found that the college Board of Regents had deprived her of procedural due process by refusing to renew her contract without sufficient notice of charges against her and without a sufficient hearing. Relief was granted in the form of the pay (and salary raise) that…