DORSETT v. BD. OF TR. FOR ST. COLLEGES & UNIV.

No. 90-4681.

940 F.2d 121 (1991)

Charles I. DORSETT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR STATE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dee A. Hawthorne, McCoy & Hawthorne, Ltd., Natchitoches, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

W. Craig Henry, William T. McNew, Hudson, Potts & Bernstein, Monroe, La., for Taylor, Reneau, Pennington, Attebery, et al.

Before KING and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARTZ, District Judge.


DUHÉ, Circuit Judge.

Claiming retaliation based on the exercise of his first amendment rights, a tenured professor at a state university sued several university officials for harassment. Because the district court concluded that the speech at issue did not address a matter of public concern, it granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment. We affirm.

FACTS

Dorsett, a tenured associate math professor at Louisiana Tech University, sought...

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