HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
Maudie Thompson, a black schoolteacher, brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the termination of her employment as a tenured teacher in the Omaha public schools. She contends that her dismissal was motivated by racial considerations rather than the board's stated ground of incompetency, thereby denying her substantive due process and equal protection of the law. The trial court held that Thompson was required to prove...
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