JEFFRIES v. TURKEY RUN CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. 73-1535.

492 F.2d 1 (1974)

Dorothy JEFFRIES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TURKEY RUN CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Darko, Jonathan L. Birge, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jerdie D. Lewis, Shephen L. Trueblood, Terre Haute, Ind., Clelland J. Hanner, Rockville, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, PELL and STEVENS, Circuit Judges.


STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

Fairly analyzed, the question presented by this appeal is whether a public employee, who has no right to any procedural safeguards in connection with the termination of her employment, and who does not claim that she was terminated for a constitutionally impermissible reason, nevertheless is protected against "arbitrary and capricious" discharge by the concept of "substantive due process."

For three years plaintiff taught music and...

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