TEXAS FACULTY ASS'N v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

No. 90-1672.

946 F.2d 379 (1991)

TEXAS FACULTY ASSOCIATION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, A Public Body of Corporate Board Regents of the University of Texas System, Robert H. Rutford, President of the University of Texas at Dallas, in His Official and Individual Capacity, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 23, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel A. Ortiz, Arlington, Tex., Patricia Polach, Robert H. Chanin, Jeremiah A. Collins, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Lou Bright, James C. Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Gen. Litigation Div., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before KING and JONES, Circuit Judges.


KING, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this case of first impression is the scope of procedural due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to faculty members at a public university who are terminated incident to a university president's decision wholly to eliminate the academic programs in which they teach. We hold that the summary judgment evidence establishes that the affected faculty members were given notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard on the university...

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