McSPADDEN v. MULLINS

No. 71-1496.

456 F.2d 428 (1972)

Christiana McSPADDEN, Appellant, v. David MULLINS et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

March 20, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas L. Wilson, Rogers, Ark., for appellant.

Leon B. Catlett, Little Rock, Ark., Ray Trammell, Fayetteville, Ark., and Catlett & Henderson, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before MATTHES, Chief Judge, and LAY and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for defendants, school officials at the University of Arkansas. Mrs. McSpadden, the wife of a faculty member of the Music Department at the University, sought relief, including damages, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, from the University's nepotism regulation, which prohibited employment of "any person in any capacity if such person is related by marriage or blood to any other employee in the same department...

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