WIGGINTON v. JONES

No. 19-60268.

964 F.3d 329 (2020)

Michael WIGGINTON, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Chancellor Daniel W. JONES, Individually and in his official capacity as Chancellor; Provost Morris H. Stocks, Individually and in his official capacity as Provost; Dean John Z. Kiss, Individually and in his official capacity as Dean; Dean Velmer Burton, Individually and in his official capacity as Dean; Chair Eric Lambert, Individually and in his official capacity as Department Chair, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED July 1, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith L. Flicker , Thomas E. Lamb, II , Flicker Garelick & Associates, L.L.P., New York, NY, Michael Farrell, Esq. , Jackson, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

James Cal Mayo, Jr., Esq. , John Andrew Mauldin, Esq. , Paul Bowie Watkins, Jr., Esq. , Mayo Mallette, P.L.L.C., Oxford, MS, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before CLEMENT, HIGGINSON, and ENGELHARDT, Circuit Judges.


Dr. Michael Wigginton was denied tenure during his sixth year as an assistant professor of Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi. He sued several university officials in their individual capacities, alleging that they violated his substantive due process rights when they evaluated his eligibility for...

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