KOCH v. RUGG

No. 98-9337.

221 F.3d 1283 (2000)

Nadine S. KOCH, Dr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edwin A. RUGG, Dr., individually and in his capacity as Vice President of Academic Affairs of Kennesaw State College; Don Forrester, Dr., individually and in his capacity as Acting Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences of Kennesaw State College, Defendants-Appellants,

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 11, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan L. Rutherford, State Law Dept., George Weaver, Hollberg & Weaver, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Robert B. Remar, Rogers & Hardin, David C. Ates, Marni K. Brown, Parks, Chesin & Miller, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before EDMONDSON and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and OWENS, District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This interlocutory appeal presents the issue of whether this court has jurisdiction to consider the denial of qualified immunity to administrators in a state university system for their decision not to employ a highly qualified Jewish professor for a temporary full-time teaching position over lesser qualified, non-Jewish temporary full-time instructors. In denying qualified immunity to the administrators, the district judge determined that questions...

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