GOODRICH v. NEWPORT NEWS SCHOOL BD.

No. 83-1740.

743 F.2d 225 (1984)

Sarah M. GOODRICH, Appellant, v. NEWPORT NEWS SCHOOL BOARD, a corporate body and Chairman Erwin M. Alexander, William E. Beamer, Elizabeth Crutchfield, Svein J. Lassen, Rev. G. Wesley Raney, III and Roy D. Stallings, Jr., individually and in their official capacities as members of the Newport News School Board and Woodrow Holmes and James West, individually and in their capacities as members of the Newport News School Board and Oliver C. Greenwood, individually and in his official capacity as division superintendent of the Newport News public school system, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 13, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beverly A. Burton, Richmond, Va. (Sa'ad El-Amin, Sa'ad El-Amin & Associates, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellant.

F. Nash Bilisoly, Norfolk, Va. (Joseph A. Gawrys, Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., Leonard A. Wallin, City Atty., Newport News, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before RUSSELL, HALL and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

Sarah M. Goodrich appeals from an order of the district court granting summary judgment for defendants in her action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983. We affirm.

I.

Goodrich was a tenured school teacher employed under continuing contract status by the Newport News, Virginia, School Board ("School Board") for the 1980-81 school year. During that time she was evaluated by her principal, Alfreda L. Alexander...

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