McENTEGGART v. CATALDO

No. 71-1254.

451 F.2d 1109 (1971)

Peter McENTEGGART, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. John M. CATALDO et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 1, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip A. Mason, Boston, Mass., with whom Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellant.

Morris M. Goldings, Boston, Mass., Sp. Counsel to Mass. Bd. of Trustees of State Colleges, with whom Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., and Walter H. Mayo III, Asst. Atty. Gen., were on brief, for appellees.

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


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Peter McEnteggart, a non-tenured Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bridgewater State College for the academic year 1970-71, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the members of the Board of Trustees and against his superiors within the college to challenge the decision of the trustees not to renew his contract for the academic year 1971-72. He alleged that his Fourteenth Amendment right to procedural due process had been...

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