Leitner v. Westchester Community College

CHIN, Circuit Judge:

In this case, plaintiff-appellee Carol Le-itner was an adjunct professor at West-chester Community College, a community college in the State University of New York (“SUNY”) system. She was fired, purportedly for making offensive comments in class. She sued Westchester Community College and certain of its administrators (collectively ‘WCC”), claiming that they violated her state and federal constitutional rights.

The district court (Seibel, J.) granted in part and denied in part WCC’s motion to dismiss. In relevant part, the district court concluded that WCC was not entitled…