GRIMES v. EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

No. 81-2466.

710 F.2d 386 (1983)

Dr. John E. GRIMES, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Sachs, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Mark T. Dunn, Bloomington, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before PELL, POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellant in this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims that a state university deprived him of property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, by firing him. We must decide whether he had a sufficient property interest in continued employment to maintain such a claim.

Between 1968 and 1978 the plaintiff (a psychologist) was employed by the university in an administrative capacity pursuant...

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