JACOBS v. STRATTON

No. 12747.

615 P.2d 982 (1980)

94 N.M. 665

Henry M. JACOBS, Jr., Petitioner, v. E. Wayne STRATTON, Charles W. Meister, Gail Shannon and Derrell W. Bulls, Respondents.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

August 20, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Gallegos, Snead & Wertheim, Jerry Wertheim, Steven L. Tucker, Santa Fe, for petitioner.

Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Irwin S. Moise, Raymond W. Schowers, Albuquerque, for respondents.

White, Koch, Kelly & McCarthy, C. Emery Cuddy, Jr., Santa Fe, Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, William B. Dixon; John P. Salazar, Albuquerque, William B. Darden, Las Cruces, Arturo G. Ortega, Albuquerque, Hilton A. Dickson, Silver City, for amici curiae.


OPINION

SOSA, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought in state court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976). The judgment of the trial court was appealed to the Court of Appeals. This Court granted certiorari.

Jacobs, plaintiff in this case, was an assistant professor in the College of Business at Eastern New Mexico University for the academic years between 1970 and 1975. He did not have tenure, but was employed by virtue of year to year contracts. During...

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