STEWART v. BAILEY

No. 75-2996.

556 F.2d 281 (1977)

Walter F. STEWART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James C. BAILEY, Individually and as Director of the George C. Wallace Technical Community College, and LeRoy Brown, Individually and as State Superintendent of Education, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 22, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Still, William M. Dawson, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Jerry D. Anker, Steven E. Silverman, David Rubin, Washington, D. C., Matthew Horowitz, National Education Association, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

James R. Knight, Knight, Knight & Griffith, Cullman, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG and HILL, Circuit Judges, and KERR, District Judge.


KERR, Senior District Judge.

In this civil rights action plaintiff Walter F. Stewart (Stewart) alleges violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments rights stemming from his dismissal as a nontenured teacher. A summary of the facts is essential to an understanding of the issues involved.

Stewart was an instructor at the George C. Wallace Technical Community College located in Hanceville, Alabama. He had been employed under four successive one-year contracts...

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