PEACOCK v. BOARD OF REGENTS, ETC.

No. 76-3595.

597 F.2d 163 (1979)

Erle E. PEACOCK, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITIES AND STATE COLLEGE OF ARIZONA, Jack R. Williams, Weldon P. Shofstall, Paul L. Singer, Sidney S. Woods, Gordon D. Paris, James E. Dunseath, Margaret M. Christy, Kenneth G. Bentson, Ralph M. Bilby, and Rudy E. Campbell, each of the foregoing Individually and in his or her capacity as a member of the Board of Regents of the Universities and State College of Arizona, John Lentz and Norman Sharber, each Individually, John P. Schaefer, Individually and in his capacity as President of the University of Arizona, Merlin K. Du Val, Individually and in his capacity as Vice President for Health Sciences and Acting Dean of the College of Medicine, University of Arizona, and Douglas H. Lindsey, Individually and in his capacity as Acting Head of the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

April 2, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Lee McLane (argued), McLane & McLane, Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiff-appellant.

William R. Jones, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Phoenix, Ariz., for defendants-appellees.

Before TRASK and HUG, Circuit Judges, and BOHANON, District Judge.


BOHANON, District Judge.

Appellant, Dr. Erle E. Peacock, Jr., a tenured professor of surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and former surgery department head, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on February 22, 1974, alleging that his dismissal as department head and suspension as professor, without prior hearings, violated Fourteenth Amendment due process and First Amendment free speech rights, and...

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