# Alan McConnell v. Howard University

> Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · May 5, 1987 · 818 F.2d 58

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9476165

## Case

- **Full name:** Alan McCONNELL, Appellant, v. HOWARD UNIVERSITY
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- **Decided:** May 5, 1987
- **Citations:** 818 F.2d 58; 260 U.S. App. D.C. 192; 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 5852
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Buckley
- **Judges:** Edwards, Silberman, Buckley
- **Cited by:** 33 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that professor was improperly dismissed because university did not adhere to standards and procedures required by faculty manual for such action

## Opinion text

BUCKLEY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur because I am satisfied that the reference to prevailing academic principles in footnote 11 is informational only. Whatever the practices elsewhere in the United States, it remains clear that Dr. McConnell’s rights are to be determined solely on the basis of what he and Howard University agreed were to be the terms of his employment.

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