Roger Owen Hooban v. Edward J. Boling

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Roger Owen Hoo-ban, a law student at the University of Tennessee at the time the suit was filed, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that his classification by university officials as “out-of-state” for tuition purposes was “arbitrary, unreasonable and invidious” and, thus, a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and, further, that his classification has violated his right to travel. District Judge Robert L. Taylor, after hearing the ease without a jury, dismissed the action in an opinion reported…