TONKOVICH v. KANSAS BD. OF REGENTS

Nos. 96-3402, 96-3403, 96-3404, 96-3405, 96-3406, 96-3407, 96-3408.

159 F.3d 504 (1998)

Emil A. TONKOVICH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS, Robert C. Caldwell, Tom E. Hammond, John B. Hiebert, Karen Krepps, John G. Montgomery, Phyllis Nolan, Frank C. Sabatini, Sidney Warner, Gene A. Budig, Delbert M. Shankel, P. Delbert Brinkman, David E. Shulenburger, Robert H. Jerry, Ii, Sidney A. Shapiro, Reginald L. Robinson, A. Kimberly Dayton, Elinor P. Schroeder, Ellen E. Sward, Sandra C. McKenzie, Ann Victoria Thomas, Rose A. Marino, H. Rutherford Turnbull, III, Nancy Ann Dahl, E.P. Johnsen, John Michel, Delores Ringer, and Robert Hemenway, individually and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

October 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Mustaine (James M. Armstrong and Mary Kathleen Babcock with him on brief), Foulston & Siefkin, L.L.P., Wichita, KS, for Defendant-Appellant in Case No. 96-3402.

William Scott Hesse, Assistant Attorney General (Carla J. Stovall, Attorney General, Kevin D. Case, Assistant Attorney General on brief), Topeka, KS, for Defendants-Appellants in Case No. 96-3403.

Andrew F. Sears (Robert F. Bennett and David C. Wetzler with him on brief), Bennett Lytle Wetzler Martin & Pishny, L.C., Prairie Village, KS, for Defendants-Appellants in Case No. 96-3404.

John I. O'Connor, Advocates Group, Pittsburg, KS, for Defendant-Appellant in Case No. 96-3405.

Thomas A. Hamill (Kathryn Gardner with him on brief), Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Swartz, Overland Park, KS, for Defendants-Appellants in Case No. 96-3406.

Michael Evan Jaffe (James H. Hulme, Eric B. Bruce, Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, Washington DC, and Bruce D. Mayfield, Overland Park, KS, with him on brief), Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants in Case No. 96-3407.

Jeffrey A. Chanay (J. Phillip Gragson and Gail D. Edson with him on brief), Entz & Chanay, P.A., Topeka, KS, for Defendants-Appellants in Case No. 96-3408.

Richard P. Hutchison, Landmark Legal Foundation, Kansas City, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before HENRY, McWILLIAMS, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.


HENRY, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidation of seven separate appeals spawned by one district court case. Professor Emil Tonkovich, a law professor at the University of Kansas School of Law ("the Law School"), filed a complaint challenging his dismissal, alleging under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that the University violated his First Amendment speech rights, and his Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights. He also alleged several state claims, which...

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