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CLEMENTS v. NASSAU COUNTY

No. 372, Docket 87-7590.

835 F.2d 1000 (1987)

Helen CLEMENTS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The COUNTY OF NASSAU, Nassau County Community College, Sean A. Fanelli, Albert E. Donor, Jr., John Q. Adams, Jr., Anne Christian, Phyllis Pelikan, Anita Madden, Alma E. Harr, and Dorothy Cooke, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Broder, Broder, Newman & Bengels, P.C., Mineola, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Patricia Mary Carroll, Deputy Co. Attorney, Nassau County, Mineola, N.Y. (Edward T. O'Brien, Co. Atty.), for defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, MINER and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Allegations of improper conduct levelled against teachers in our university systems call into play fundamental questions of fairness. At times, however, they threaten to strike at the heart of institutions of higher learning. As Robert Maynard Hutchins once cautioned, "Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching — without these a university cannot exist." This is particularly true where the charges are...

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