Smith v. State

LEVINE, Justice.

Elizabeth Smith appeals from a judgment dismissing on the merits her action for reinstatement of employment as a professor at the University of North Dakota (the University). We affirm.

Smith was hired as a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University for the 1982-83 school year. Smith received a second-year contract for the 1983-84 school year, but she received a nonre-newal notice from the University President on December 13, 1983, terminating her employment with the University at the conclusion of her second year. Smith was hired in a tenure track position, but…