TONKOVICH v. KANSAS BD. OF REGENTS

No. 00-3136.

254 F.3d 941 (2001)

Emil A. TONKOVICH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS; University of Kansas; James Turner; William R. Docking; Kenneth C. Havner; and Robert V. Talkington, Defendants, and Robert C. Caldwell; Tom E. Hammond; John B. Hiebert; Karen Krepps; John G. Montgomery; Phyllis Nolan; Frank C. Sabatini; Sidney Warner; Gene A. Budig; Delbert M. Shankel; P. Delbert Brinkman; David E. Shulenburger; Robert H. Jerry, II; Sidney A. Shapiro; Reginald L. Robinson; A. Kimberly Dayton; Elinor P. Schroeder; Ellen E. Sward; Sandra C. McKenzie; Ann Victoria Thomas; Rose A. Marino; H. Rutherford Turnbull, III; Nancy Ann Dahl; E.P. Johnsen; John Michel; and Delores Ringer, Individually and in Their Individual Capacity; and Robert Hemenway, Chancellor, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 20, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emil A. Tonkovich, pro se (Richard P. Hutchison of Landmark Legal Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri, on the briefs).

William Scott Hesse, Assistant Attorney General, State of Kansas, Topeka, KS, (Timothy B. Mustaine of Foulston & Siefkin L.L.P., Wichita, KS, for Appellee Jerry; Bruce D. Mayfield, Overland Park, KS, and Michael Evan Jaffe of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D.C., for Appellees Dayton, Robinson, Schroeder, Shapiro, and Sward; Tammy M. Samogye of Lathrop & Gage L.C., Overland Park, KS, for Appellees Turnbull, Dahl, Johnsen, Michel, and Ringer; Thomas A. Hamill of Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Swartz, L.L.P., Overland Park, KS, for Appellees Marino and Thomas; Jeffrey A. Chanay of Entz & Chanay, Topeka, Kansas, for Appellees Brinkman, Budig, Hemenway, Shankel, and Shulenberger; John I. O'Connor of The Advocates Group, Pittsburg, KS, for Appellee MacKenzie; Carla J. Stovall, Attorney General for the State of Kansas, Topeka, KS, for Appellees Caldwell, Hammond, Hiebert, Krepps, Montgomery, Nolan, Sabatini, and Warner, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before KELLY, McKAY, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


McKAY, Circuit Judge.

Following a lengthy administrative hearing process, Plaintiff was fired from his tenured teaching position at the University of Kansas School of Law for allegedly engaging in a sex act with one of his students after discussing grades. He subsequently sued the University, the Board of Regents, and numerous University administrators and professors in their official and individual capacities, asserting violations of state law and 42 U.S.C. §...

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