Decker v. Worcester Junior College

The plaintiffs were reappointed in March, 1972, to the faculty of the defendant college (college) for the academic year 1972-1973. Each had received and countersigned annual letters of reappointment in prior years. Allegedly because of the college’s financial problems, neither was reappointed similarly for the 1973-1974 academic year. They brought a bill for declaratory relief, seeking a determination that in effect they had been reappointed' for another academic year because they had not received a lawfully effective notice of the termination of their appointments pursuant to an alleged…