HATTON v. WICKS

No. 84-4247 Summary Calendar.

744 F.2d 501 (1984)

Ethel HATTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Marshall WICKS, Individually, and as Principal of Hughes Elementary School, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 22, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennie L. Turner, Walker & Turner, Randolph Walker, West Point, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

Shields Sims, Sims & Sims, Jeffrey C. Smith, Columbus, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before WILLIAMS, JOLLY, and HILL, Circuit Judges.


JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

This is an unusual case in which an established sixth grade teacher, under contract and who had taught sixth grade at the same school for ten years, was discharged for refusing to accept into her class a thirteen year old "disciplinary problem student" who chose her as his teacher in what the discharged teacher calls a "lineup" of the available teachers. The use of the word "lineup" to describe what actually occurred is, to some extent...

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