Legal Opinion
Nwaubani v. Grossman
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided July 26, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 13-12552-WGYPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT, RULINGS OF LAW, AND ORDER FOR JUDGMENT
YOUNG, District Judge.
1. INTRODUCTION
At bottom, this is a dispute between a tenured professor and a university over the professor’s teaching responsibilities. While plaintiff Chidiebere Nwaubani (“Nwaubani”) might have a genuine grievance with his former employer, he does not have a meritorious federal civil rights claim. Nwaubani was hired by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (the “University”) in 2005 as (1) a tenured professor in the University’s History Department and (2) the Director of its African and African-American…
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