PENNYCUFF v. FENTRESS COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 02-6060.

404 F.3d 447 (2005)

Joe D. PENNYCUFF, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FENTRESS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION; and Homer Lee Linder, Jr., Superintendent of Fentress County Schools, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: April 12, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Richard L. Colbert, Colbert & Winstead, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Phillips M. Smalling, Hassler & Smalling, Byrdstown, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Richard L. Colbert, Colbert & Winstead, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Phillips M. Smalling, Hassler & Smalling, Byrdstown, Tennessee, W. Gary Blackburn, Blackburn & McCune, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: SILER, BATCHELDER, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.


BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant Joe D. Pennycuff appeals from the district court's order granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Fentress County Board of Education and Homer Lee Linder, Jr., Superintendent of Fentress County Schools (collectively "defendants"), in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Because we conclude that the district court correctly determined that Pennycuff did not attain tenure as a teacher in the Fentress County...

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