Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
- Decided
- January 11, 1977
- Docket
- 75-1278
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 7,445 timesSuperseded by statute (verified)Possible negative treatment: superseded by statute, superseded on other grounds, abrogated on other grounds (2 of 15 verified; none is a verified overruling) · Island Palm Communities LLC v. Amuro
What later courts said
- concluding that an Ohio school board was “more like a county or city than it [was] like an arm of the State” — Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni v. Board of Regents of the University of California, University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory (1994)
- holding that the controlling question in retaliation cases is whether the employer would have reached the same decision absent the protected conduct — O'ROURKE v. Commonwealth (2001)
- holding that local school board is not an arm of the state under Ohio law — Rosa R. v. Connelly (1989)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
[*276] Mr. Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.
Respondent Doyle sued petitioner Mt. Healthy Board of Education in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Doyle claimed that the Board’s refusal to renew his contract in 1971 violated his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. After a bench trial the District Court held that Doyle was entitled to reinstatement with backpay. The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the judgment, 529 F. 2d 524, and we granted the Board’s petition for certiorari, 425 U. S. 933, to consider an admixture of jurisdictional and constitutional claims.
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Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274 (1977)Read the full opinion
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