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- Title: Gross v. University of Tennessee and Charles B. Mccall
- Author : Sixth Circuit. United States Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 09, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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The question on appeal is whether plaintiffs' employment termination violates either 42 U.S.C. § 1983 or the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiffs, Drs. Gross and Grant, were tenured faculty members of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. At the time the doctors accepted employment, it was university policy that full-time medical faculty enter into a medical practice income agreement that would siphon off outside medical earnings above a certain level. The primary purpose of this rule was to limit the faculty's outside private practice and thus to foster greater devotion to teaching responsibilities. At least one of the plaintiffs, Dr. Gross, acknowledges he was aware of the policy when he accepted employment. One year, however, the plaintiffs refused to sign the income agreement, and following university administrative proceedings, both were terminated. The doctors thereafter filed suit in federal district court for both damages and injunctive relief under § 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment.