O'HERN v. SCHOOL DIST. OF SPRINGFIELD R-12

No. 77-1412.

578 F.2d 220 (1978)

Joe R. O'HERN, Appellant, v. The SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SPRINGFIELD R-12, Mrs. John D. Bentley, Dr. M. D. Bonebrake, Jack Cole, Theodore C. Salveter, William V. Turner, and J. E. Kuklenski, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Weinberg, Washington, D. C. (argued), Michael H. Gottesman, Washington, D. C., Samuel F. Hamra, Jr., and David R. Fielder, Springfield, Mo., David Rubin, Washington, D. C., on brief, for appellant.

Kenneth T. Walter (argued), of Mann, Walter, Burkart, Weathers & Warden, Springfield, Mo., on brief, for appellees.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge, and LAY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an action in three counts brought by Joe R. O'Hern against the School District of Springfield, Missouri, R-12, the Superintendent and Board of Education of Springfield R-12, and the individual board members. Count I, brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment, was based on plaintiff's allegation that his teaching contract with the district was not renewed because of his exercise of First Amendment rights. In...

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