UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. NO. 480 v. EPPERSON

No. 75-1948.

583 F.2d 1118 (1978)

UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 480, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lila EPPERSON and Oleta A. Peters, Defendants-Appellants. Lila EPPERSON and Oleta A. Peters, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J. L. SMALLING, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided August 31, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Weinberg, Washington, D.C. (Michael H. Gottesman of Bredhoff, Cushman, Gottesman & Cohen; David Rubin, Washington, D.C., Ward D. Martin and John C. Frieden of Crane, Martin, Claussen, Hamilton & Barry, Topeka, Kan., on brief), for Lila Epperson and Oleta A. Peters, plaintiffs-appellants.

Donald R. Newkirk, Wichita, Kan. (Gerrit H. Wormhoudt and J. Eric Engstrom, Wichita, Kan., of counsel: Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, Wichita, Kan., on brief), for J. L. Smalling, et al., defendants-appellees.

Before LEWIS, McWILLIAMS and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.


McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

This is a dispute between Unified School District No. 480, in Seward County, Kansas, and two of its former teachers, Oleta Peters and Lila Epperson. Peters and Epperson had been teaching 11 and 17 years respectively in District No. 480 when they, along with others, were notified by the District on February 9, 1972, that their teaching contracts would not be renewed for the ensuing school year of 1972-73. Peters and Epperson were each under...

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