Court Opinion

ID: 9462940
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:53:51.222746+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:51.379793
License: Public Domain

SETH, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially):
I agree to the affirmance of the district court, but instead, and only for the reason that the trial court found the nonrenewal of appellant’s contract did not violate his constitutional rights; because there was no expectation of continued employment; there was no property interest; there was no liberty interest involved; and thus the case was decided well within Roth and Sindermann.
Also I agree that the trial court was correct in its conclusion that no First Amendment rights of appellant were violated. The court found that the decision of the school board was not made in response to appellant’s exercise of his First Amendment rights, also that the exercise of such rights by appellant did not play a part in the decision of the board not to renew. These are again supported by the record.
These two points are the basic and only elements in the case, and they were correctly decided by the trial court. This concurrence thus expresses agreement with the ultimate disposition of the appeal as made by Judge Barrett, but I am unable to otherwise agree with his opinion as it treats this case or as it comments on prior opinions of this court.