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McCONNELL v. HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Civ. A. No. 85-0298.

621 F.Supp. 327 (1985)

Alan McCONNELL, Plaintiff, v. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

October 28, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woodley B. Osborne, Friedman & Wirtz, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Francis S. Smith, University Counsel for Administrative and Employment Affairs, Washington, D.C. (Richard P. Thornell, Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel, Howard University, of counsel), for defendant.

MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

I.

Plaintiff was dismissed for "cause" from a tenured professorship at Howard University by its Board of Trustees ("Board") on the ground that he had neglected his professional responsibilities when he refused to continue teaching a mathematics course to which he was assigned.1 It is undisputed that plaintiff refused to teach the class. Rather, plaintiff contends that his refusal...

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