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FORD v. NICKS

No. 83-5330.

741 F.2d 858 (1984)

Dr. Lani FORD and Dr. William C. Ford, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Chancellor Roy S. NICKS, individually and in his official capacity as Chief Executive Officer, State of Tennessee Board of Regents; Governor Ray Blanton; C.C. Bond; Wayne Brown; Sam Ingram; Kenneth Ezell; Edward S. Porter; Dale Glover; James H. Jones, Jr.; Charles J. Liner; Johnella H. Martin; Ella V. Ross; J. Frank Taylor; J. Howard Warf; David White; and Dwight Henry, individually and in their official capacities as members of the Board of Regents of the State of Tennessee; M.G. Scarlett, President, Middle Tennessee State University; and Middle Tennessee State University, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1984.

Rehearing Denied September 20, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., State of Tenn., William B. Hubbard, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., R. Stephen Doughty, argued, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

Charles Hampton White, argued, Cornelius, Collins, Higgins & White, William Prentice Cooper, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before JONES and CONTIE, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

On April 26, 1977, Dr. Lani Ford and Dr. William C. Ford filed suit in federal district court against Middle Tennessee State University, the school's president, Dr. M.G. Scarlett, and the Board of Regents of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee and its members (collectively MTSU), contending that their terminations from the teaching staff at MTSU constituted employment discrimination in violation of Title...

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