Katherine R. Sheppard v. The West Virginia Board of Regents, a Corporation

THOMSEN, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal of her action, which sought an order compelling defendants to reemploy her as an assistant professor of chemistry at West Virginia Institute of Technology for the 1973 — 74 academic year, until just cause for dismissing her is shown after a hearing, and to' recover any wages and benefits to which she would have been entitled as such an employee. No First Amendment violation is claimed; plaintiff asserts the deprivation of a property right, and bases jurisdiction on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 1343. The case turns on the…