HARRIS v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA

No. 95-8111.

105 F.3d 591 (1997)

J. Jerome HARRIS, Ph.D., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA; A School District of the State of Georgia, Defendant-Counter-Claimant, Joseph G. Martin, Jr., Individually and in his Official Capacity as President of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta; Mary Anne Bellinger, Rev., Individually and in her Official Capacity as Vice-President of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta; John F. Elger, Individually and in his Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta; Carolyn D. Yancey, Individually and in her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta; D.F. Glover, Dr., Individually and in his Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta; Robert Waymer, Individually and in his Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta; Midge Sweet, Individually and in her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta; Ina Evans, Individually and in her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta; Preston W. Williams, Dr., Individually and in his Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 23, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley S. Wolff, W. Ray Persons, Michael D. Watson, Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

Gary S. Freed, Freed Lester & Klorfein, Atlanta, GA, Aubrey V. McCutcheon, Jr., Ypsilanti, MI, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

Before HATCHETT, Chief Judge, HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and MILLS, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

J. Jerome Harris filed this civil rights action against the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta ("Board") and the individual members thereof claiming that he was improperly relieved of his duties as Superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools prior to the expiration of his employment contract with that governmental body. The parties eventually filed cross-motions for summary judgment. The United States District Court for the Northern District of...

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