Martin v. Mullins

NEELY, Justice:

In 1976 the Lincoln County Board of Education fired five untenured school bus drivers, an untenured cook, and an unten-ured laborer; transferred a tenured employee of the school board; and transferred and demoted a school principal to a teaching position. These nine individuals then brought suit in the United States District Court under 42 U.S. C. §§ 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, and directly under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States against the Board of Education of Lincoln County, the Superintendent of Schools, and school board members…