Legal Opinion
Dean Patterson v. Stephen A. Portch
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 3, 1988No. 87-2448PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Dean Patterson became a tenured geography instructor at a Wisconsin state college in 1973. He was not a successful teacher, for no students enrolled in his classes in the fall of 1978, and the college administration therefore assigned him to a noninstructional project, compiling a demographic profile of the college’s alumni. The project was to be done on campus. Patterson did not report to work on December 4, 1978, as he was supposed to do, and on January 18 — Patterson still not having shown up — the administration sent him a letter telling him that unless he reported…
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