JEFFRIES v. HARLESTON

No. 92 Civ. 4180 (KC).

828 F.Supp. 1066 (1993)

Leonard JEFFRIES, Plaintiff, v. Bernard HARLESTON, individually and in his official capacity as President of City College of New York, W. Ann Reynolds, individually and in her official capacity as Chancellor of City University of New York, James P. Murphy, Edith B. Everett, Herman Badillo, Sylvia Bloom, Gladys Carrion, Louis C. Cenci, Michael J. Del Guidice, Stanley Fink, William R. Howard, Harold M. Jacobs, Susan Moore Mouner, Calvin O. Pressley, and Thomas Tam, individually and in their official capacities as Trustees of City University of New York, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

August 4, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Fleming, New York City, for plaintiff.

Kathy-Ann Whipple, Clement J. Colucci, Asst. Atty. Gens., New York City, for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

CONBOY, District Judge:

A federal jury has found that City University, without justification, punished a tenured professor on its faculty for an off-campus speech he had given, by removing him as Chairman of his academic department. It is unequivocally clear, under our Constitution, and the law enunciated on the subject by the United States Supreme Court, and in the light of the factual trial record developed in this case, that the action...

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