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SULLIVAN v. MEADE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST. NO. 101

No. 75-1315.

530 F.2d 799 (1976)

Kathleen SULLIVAN, Appellant, v. MEADE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 101 et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 26, 1976.

Rehearing Denied March 24, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven W. Sanford, Sioux Falls, S. D., Ina A. Litke, Vermillion, S. D., Marilyn G. Haft, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, and Michael B. Crew, Vermillion, S. D., for appellant.

David E. Morrill, Morrill & Hansen, Sturgis, S. D., for appellees.

Before HEANEY, BRIGHT and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges.

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the primary question of whether the school board of a small rural community violated the constitutional rights of a single young woman elementary teacher by discharging her in midterm as incompetent to continue teaching because she insisted upon sharing her dwelling located within the school community with a single man.1

Following her discharge, the teacher, Kathleen Sullivan, brought...

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