LIEBERMAN v. GANT

Civ. No. 15736.

474 F.Supp. 848 (1979)

Marcia R. LIEBERMAN, Plaintiff, v. Edward V. GANT, Individually and as Acting President and Provost of the University of Connecticut, William C. Orr, Individually and as Associate Provost of the University of Connecticut, Kenneth G. Wilson, Individually and as Vice-President (Academic Programs) of the University of Connecticut, Robert W. Lougee, Individually and as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Connecticut, William T. Moynihan, Individually and as Head of the Department of English of the University of Connecticut, Charles A. Owen, Jr., Individually and as Chairman, Elected Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of English, of the University of Connecticut, and Gordon W. Tasker, Merlin D. Bishop, Carl W. Nielsen, Joseph R. McCormick, Betty J. Jones, William DeHomer Waller, John M. Lupton, Louise Kronholm, Norma Jorgensen, Robert F. Taylor, Walter B. Kozloski, and Charles Stroh, Individually and as members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Connecticut, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

August 2, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis M. Winer, Peter A. Kelly, J. Michael Sulzbach, Winer, Kelly & Sulzbach, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiff.

Thomas F. Parker, Gross, Hyde & Williams, Hartford, Conn., for Edward V. Gant, William C. Orr, Kenneth G. Wilson and Robert W. Lougee, Individually.

Edward J. Daly, Jr., Silvester & Daly, Hartford, Conn., for William T. Moynihan and Charles A. Owen, Jr.

John R. Fitzgerald, Howard, Kohn, Sprague & Fitzgerald, Hartford, Conn., for Carl W. Nielsen.

Bourke G. Spellacy, Thomas J. Shortell, Charles F. Corcoran, III, James T. Graham, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, Hartford, Conn., for Joseph R. McCormick.

Robert C. Danaher, R. Cornelius Danaher, Jr., Danaher, Lewis & Tamoney, Hartford, Conn., for John M. Lupton.

James J. Kennelly, Hartford, Conn., for Louise Kronholm.

Israel Rosenzweig, Rosenzweig & Fagan, New Britain, Conn., for Norma Jorgensen.

F. Timothy McNamara, Hartford, Conn., for Robert F. Taylor.

John F. Scully, Patrick J. Flaherty, Cooney, Scully & Dowling, Hartford, Conn., for Walter B. Kozloski & Charles Stroh, Individually.

John F. McKenna, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., John G. Hill, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Storrs, Conn., Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for all defendants as officials or employees of the State of Connecticut and for defendants Gordon W. Tasker, Merlin D. Bishop, Betty J. Jones and William DeHomer Waller, Individually.

Bernard F. McGovern, Jr., Sidney D. Giber, David J. Della-Bitta, Asst. Attys. Gen., Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for all defendants as officials or employees of the State of Connecticut and for defendants, Gordon W. Tasker, Merlin D. Bishop, Betty J. Jones and William DeHomer Waller, Individually.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

CLARIE, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff Marcia R. Lieberman was denied tenure at the University of Connecticut after teaching in the University's English department in a nontenured status for a probationary period of six years. She instituted this action against the University's Board of Trustees, several of its officers and members of its English department, alleging that the decision not to promote her to a tenured position was made in...

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