JONES v. LOUISIANA BD. OF SUP'RS OF UNIVERSITY

No. 14-31255.

809 F.3d 231 (2015)

Robert C. JONES, III, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LOUISIANA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA SYSTEMS; State of Louisiana; Lisa Abney; Randall Webb; Robert Crew; Carl Jones; Marcus Jones; Jerry Pierce; Darlene Williams, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 9, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson Welch Cameron (argued), Shreveport, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Linda Law Clark, Esq. (argued), DeCuir, Clark & Adams, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and JONES and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff Robert C. Jones III ("Jones") was a tenured economics professor at Northwestern State University ("NSU"), a division of the University of Louisiana System ("ULS"). Beginning around 2008, the Louisiana legislature enacted heavy budget cuts that seriously impacted the state's public universities. In 2010, NSU...

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