MANCHESTER v. LEWIS

No. 74-1270.

507 F.2d 289 (1974)

Stephen MANCHESTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Orlyn C. LEWIS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

November 25, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace K. Sagendorph, Levin, Levin, Garvett & Dill, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

George E. Bushnell, Jr., Wolfgang Hoppe, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, Gregory L. Curtner, Detroit, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and McCREE and LIVELY, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

Stephen Manchester, a non-tenured teacher in a Michigan public high school, filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 charging that he was denied tenure because of his exercise of first amendment rights. The defendants were the members of the school board, the board secretary, the superintendent of schools and the high school principal.

After a full evidentiary hearing, District Judge John Feikens made the following finding of fact...

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