DERRICKSON v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF CITY OF ST. LOUIS

No. 82-1501.

703 F.2d 309 (1983)

Howard DERRICKSON, Appellant, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF ST. LOUIS; Robert E. Wentz; Burchard Neel, Jr.; John R. Spicer, Principal for the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. Sestric, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Judson W. Calkins, Amy R. Hinderer, Lashly, Caruthers, Baer & Hamel, A Professional Corp., St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before HEANEY and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Howard Derrickson, a former teacher at McKinley High School in St. Louis, Missouri, filed this action against the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis [Board], its individual members, and various other individual defendants, alleging deprivation of several of his constitutional rights under color of state law in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Supp. III 1979). Specifically, Derrickson alleged that the failure to retain him as a tenured...

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