HILLIS v. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY

No. 80-1570.

665 F.2d 547 (1982)

Richard K. HILLIS, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants-Appellants Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Wilson, Richard Arnett, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., Robert Provan, Gen. Counsel, Nacogdoches, Tex., for defendants-appellants cross-appellees.

Martha McCabe, Tyler, Tex., Thomas J. Griffith, Lubbock, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee cross-appellant.

Before CHARLES CLARK, TATE and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 4, 1982.

CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:

The defendants in this section 1983 action, Stephen F. Austin University (SFA) and Dr. Creighton Delaney, appeal the district court's decision, 486 F.Supp. 663 (E.D.Tex.1980), concerning the non-renewal of employment of Richard Hillis, a nontenured art professor. The district court found that Hillis' nonrenewal was constitutionally impermissible...

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