Legal Opinion
Simpson v. Alcorn State University
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided June 13, 2014No. Civil Action No. 3:13CV424TSL-JMRPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
TOM S. LEE, District Judge.
From 1991 until his resignation in May 2012, plaintiff Alvin T. Simpson was *715employed as a professor in the Department of Education and Psychology of Al-corn State University (ASU) pursuant to a series of contracts with the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL). From 2008 to 2011, he also served as interim Chair of the Department of Education and Psychology. Simpson filed the present action on May 10, 2013 against ASU, IHL and a number of ASU officials and employees, asserting putative claims for disability discrimination under…
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