Legal Opinion
Monte R. Blair v. Board of Regents of the I State University and Community College System of Tennessee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 3, 1974No. 73-1984PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.
Monte R. Blair was a non-tenured professor at Memphis State University. His contract was not renewed at the end of his fifth year as a member of the faculty. He filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, contending that the method followed by the University in not renewing his contract and in not granting him tenure violated the minimum requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The District Court held that appellee had been deprived of the minimum standards of due process and ordered that he be reinstated as a non-tenured professor until he…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Phyllis B. Hetrick v. Robert R. Martin, President of Eastern Kentucky University, and the Board of Regents of Eastern Kentucky UniversityCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1973
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- Eskel Norbeck v. Davenport Community School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
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