Flossie v. Grimes v. Nottoway County School Board

DUPREE, District Judge:

Alleging a violation of her constitutional rights in its refusal to renew her contract of employment for the school year 1968-69, the plaintiff, a non-tenured high school teacher, brought this action against the defendant School Board, the superintendent and principal under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive relief, back pay, attorney’s fees and court costs. At the trial the plaintiff conceded that the failure to renew her contract was not based on the infringement of any of her substantive constitutional rights but insisted that she had…