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BLAIR v. BOARD OF REG. OF STATE UNIV. & COM. COL. SYS., TENN.

No. 73-1984.

496 F.2d 322 (1974)

Monte R. BLAIR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF the STATE UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNTY COLLEGE SYSTEM OF TENNESSEE et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 3, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Henry Haile, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., on brief, David M. Pack, Atty. Gen., of counsel, for defendants-appellants.

Irvin M. Salky, Elijah Noel, Jr., Ratner, Sugarmon & Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., on brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, WEICK, Circuit Judge, and CONTIE, District Judge.

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

Monte R. Blair was a non-tenured professor at Memphis State University. His contract was not renewed at the end of his fifth year as a member of the faculty. He filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, contending that the method followed by the University in not renewing his contract and in not granting him tenure violated the minimum requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The District Court held that...

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