Justia Federal District Court Opinions

On January 7, 1970, without a hearing, appellant H. L. Moore was suspended from teaching eighth-grade subjects in the Borger, Texas, school system after female students accused him of improper advances. Between then and now, to his misfortune, the law governing such matters has undergone a period of rapid clarification and development. The shocks of this have registered upon the body of his case and, largely owing to them, it remains before the courts.¹ The parties now agree, however, that at this stage of the case all has worn away save one narrow issue: had Moore a "property" interest in his job, in the Sindermann² sense, so that the hearing required by procedural due process was necessary to his dismissal? This, in turn, boils down to job tenure, and informal tenure at that, since it is undisputed that Moore's only formal contract was a written one for a one-year term, long ago paid out and satisfied. The court below concluded he did not. Agreeing, we affirm upon the basis of its opinion, reported at 377 F.Supp. 302 (N.D.Tex.1974).

Affirmed.