GARVIE v. JACKSON

No. 87-5569.

845 F.2d 647 (1988)

Peter M. GARVIE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles O. JACKSON and George W. Wheeler, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cecil D. Meek, Jr. (argued), Haynes, Meek, Summers & Mabry, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Beauchamp E. Brogan, University of Tennessee, Catherine S. Mizell (argued), Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRUPANSKY and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges, and GILMORE, District Judge.


WELLFORD, Circuit Judge.

In this case, plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Provost and the former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Tennessee. Plaintiff asserts that his removal by defendants from his position as Head of the University's Speech and Theatre Department violated his rights under the first and fourteenth amendments of the Constitution. The district court granted defendants summary judgment based on its...

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