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DROWN v. PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. 7667.

435 F.2d 1182 (1970)

Patrica DROWN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 18, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack B. Middleton, Manchester, N. H., with whom Peter B. Rotch and McLane, Carleton, Graf, Greene & Brown, Manchester, N. H., were on the brief, for appellant.

John C. Driscoll, Portsmouth, N. H., for appellees.

Bradley F. Kidder and Nighswander, Lord, Martin & KillKelley, Laconia, N. H., on the brief for The New Hampshire School Boards Ass'n, amicus curiae.

David Rubin, Richard J. Medalie, Alvin Friedman, and Epstein, Friedman & Duncan, Washington, D. C., on brief for The National Education Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a public school teacher, brings this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Portsmouth School District, the administrator, and the school board members of the district. She claims that appellee's failure to offer her a teaching contract for the 1970-71 school year deprived her of rights guaranteed to her by the Constitution.

Appellant was employed as a non-tenured teacher...

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