COOLEY v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF FORREST CITY SCH. DIST.

No. 71-1312.

453 F.2d 282 (1972)

J. F. COOLEY, Appellant, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the FORREST CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

January 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip E. Kaplan, Walker, Kaplan & Mays, Little Rock, Ark., Jack Greenberg, Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, for appellant.

Harold Sharpe, Sharpe & Wilkinson, Butler & Hicky, Forrest City, Ark., for appellees.

Before LAY, HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.


STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

This action is one instituted by Reverend J. F. Cooley in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The relief sought is a declaration that Rev. Cooley's mid-term discharge, without notice and without a hearing, from employment as a teacher of social science, Arkansas history, and good citizenship in the Lincoln Junior High School, Forrest City, Arkansas was premised upon constitutionally interdicted grounds...

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