Legal Opinion
Pinckney v. Love, Jr. v. M. W. Sessions, Former Superintendent of the Burke County Board of Education, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 21, 1978No. 76-1022PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Per curiam
Pinckney V. Love, plaintiff, had been a nontenured principal of the Waynesboro Elementary School for one year when the Burke County Board of Education decided not to renew his contract for the 1971-72 school term. In a 1973 suit before the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Love claimed that this dismissal violated his First Amendment rights and deprived him of his Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a pretermination hearing. The Board of Education, in response to Love’s request for a statement of reasons for his nonrenewal, cited a series of events that occurred…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- James White v. Carl ThomasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
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