Legal Opinion
Snitow v. Rutgers University
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided March 17, 1986PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
O’HERN, J.
The central issue in this appeal concerns the point at which a party may seek to be relieved of a contractual agreement to grieve a dispute over the terms and conditions of public employment and pursue a claim for relief in a court of law. The case arises in the context of a university professor challenging the legality and fairness of a tenure-retention decision. The teacher asserts that recourse to the grievance provisions of her contract would be futile so as to warrant the fashioning of a judicial remedy directing the method in which the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Regents of the University of California v. BakkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Sweezy v. New Hampshire Ex Rel. WymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva UniversitySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Tiernan v. Trustees of California State University and CollegesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1982
- Gertler v. GoodgoldAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Dixon v. Rutgers, the State University of NJSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1988
- Neiman v. Yale UniversitySupreme Court of Connecticut · 2004
- In Re Determination of Executive Commission on Ethical StandardsSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1989
- Mittra v. University of MedicineNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1998
- McDowell v. NapolitanoNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1995
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