NICHOLSON v. BOARD OF EDUC., ETC.

No. 79-3824.

682 F.2d 858 (1982)

Don Patrick NICHOLSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION TORRANCE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Simpson, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Audrey Oliver, Deputy County Counsel, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before TANG and NELSON, Circuit Judges and SPENCER WILLIAMS, District Judge.


SPENCER WILLIAMS, District Judge:

This appeal results from an action filed by plaintiff and appellant Don Patrick Nicholson in which he alleged that his employment as a high school journalism teacher was terminated wrongfully as a result of constitutionally protected action he took as his school's newspaper advisor. The United States District Court for the Central District of California rendered judgment for the defendants on the ground that Nicholson had failed to...

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