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WELLS v. DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

No. 84-1848.

793 F.2d 679 (1986)

Weldon WELLS, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross-Appellee, v. DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Heard, Oneal, Gilstrap & Goetz, Marcia Wise, Frank Hill, Frank Gilstrap, Arlington, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant cross-appellee.

DeHay & Blanchard, J. Carlisle DeHay, Jr., David W. Townend, Garland, Tex., for defendants-appellees cross-appellants.

Before GEE, RANDALL and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

While watching a local television news broadcast one evening in September 1979, Weldon Wells learned that he had been fired from his post as Assistant Superintendent of Support Services for the Dallas Independent School District (DISD). Wells later brought this action in the district court against the DISD seeking damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on the ground that his 14th Amendment due process rights had been violated by his summary dismissal...

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