KENDALL v. BOARD OF ED. OF MEMPHIS CITY

Nos. 78-1498, 78-1499.

627 F.2d 1 (1980)

Linda KENDALL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS; Members of the Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools, Individually and in their official capacities; John P. Freeman, Individually and as Superintendent of the Memphis City Schools, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Hampton White, Cornelius, Collins, Higgins & White, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Ernest G. Kelly, Jr., Cobb, Dewards, Hamlet, Nichol & Woodall, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before MERRITT, MARTIN and JONES, Circuit Judges.


NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Linda Kendall was employed by the Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools (Board) in the 1975-76 school year under a one-year contract. The Board discharged Kendall on March 11, 1976 without a prior hearing for alleged violations of the Board's policies on corporal punishment and reporting students' accidents. After trial on her claim alleging violation of her Fourteenth Amendment right to due process the district court awarded...

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