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FIELDS v. DURHAM

No. 88-1564.

856 F.2d 655 (1988)

Ralph Rodney FIELDS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph T. DURHAM, Individually and as President of Community College of Baltimore; Community College of Baltimore; Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City; James S. Jeffers, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Community College of Baltimore: the Board of Trustees Community College of Baltimore, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 13, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Lee Steelman (Daniel S. Katz, Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad, P.A., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

John Spencer Wood, Chief Sol. (Neal M. Janey, City Sol., Laurice D. Royal, Asst. Sol., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before CHAPMAN, WILKINSON and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

On June 27, 1986, Ralph Fields was terminated from his position as Dean of Faculty and Provost at the Community College of Baltimore by the College's newly appointed president, Joseph Durham. The Board of Trustees approved Field's termination after a hearing held on August 12, 1986. Fields subsequently filed suit against Durham, the College, its Trustees, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleged...

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