WICKS v. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIV.

No. 58105.

536 So.2d 20 (1988)

David H. WICKS v. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE University & Joe L. Boyer, etc.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyree Irving, Greenville, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Gail W. Lowery and Rickey T. Moore, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellees.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and PRATHER and GRIFFIN, JJ.


PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

The issue presented by this appeal questions the authority of a college or university president to withhold tenure status to a professor of that institution without due process of law. Resolution of this issue is found in the answer to the question of whether a professor had a property interest in his teaching position. This Court holds that there is no property interest in the grant of tenure.

On April 12, 1985, Dr. David...

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