BATES v. SPONBERG

No. 75-2212.

547 F.2d 325 (1976)

John M. BATES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Harold E. SPONBERG et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Duerr, Jr., Jackson & Lamb, Ypsilanti, Mich., for defendants-appellants.

Gayle S. Boesky, Bernard J. Fieger, Fieger, Golden, Cousens, Southfield, Mich., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before EDWARDS and ENGEL, Circuit Judges, and GREEN, Senior Circuit Judge.


ENGEL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether plaintiff, a tenured faculty member at Eastern Michigan University, was denied his right to procedural due process where the hearing on his dismissal was before a body other than that which passed final judgment on his discharge for cause. The district judge held that the University Board of Regents had a self-imposed duty to review the record of plaintiff's discharge hearing, and that its refusal...

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