HILDEBRAND v. BD. OF TRUSTEES OF MICH. S. UNIV.

No. 77-1435.

607 F.2d 705 (1979)

John R. HILDEBRAND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, Clifton R. Wharton, President, Michigan State University, John Edward Cantlon, Provost, Michigan State University, Edward A. Carlin, Dean of University College, Michigan State University, Douglas Dunham, and Clinton A. Synder, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 16, 1979.

As Amended September 17, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Laing, Jr., MacLean, Seaman, Laing & Guilford, Lansing, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Leland W. Carr, Jr., Anderson, Carr, Street & Hornbach, Lansing, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Lynwood E. Beekman, Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, Lansing, Mich., for amicus curiae.

Before WEICK and KEITH, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


KEITH, Circuit Judge.

In recent years, the genteel academic world has been rocked with controversies which have required adjudication by federal judges. This case presents an increasingly common dispute — a non-tenured professor whose employment is terminated, claims that his first amendment and due process rights were abridged. The issues presented in this appeal, however, do not directly implicate the merits of how and why the plaintiff was fired. Instead...

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