US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Opinions Wilkerson v. University of North Texas Docket: 16-41716 Opinion Date: December 20, 2017 Judge: Stephen Andrew Higginson Areas of Law: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's denial of summary judgment to the administrators of a university on their immunity defenses. Plaintiff filed suit alleging that he was deprived of his property interest in his job without due process and tortious interference with his employment contract. The court held that the district court erred in denying the administrators qualified immunity against the section 1983 claim because plaintiff did not have a clearly established property right. Furthermore, state law compelled a similar result on the tortious interference claim. Accordingly, the district court should have granted immunity to the administrators. Read Opinion
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