Albert C. Staheli v. The University of Mississippi

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• holding that plaintiffs alleged property interest in tenure, arising from his implicit, mutual understanding that his position would continue, failed in light of the university's written tenure policy only allowing tenure to be granted by the chancellor of the university
• excluding the testimony of a professor as to an out of court statement by the university chancellor about why the plaintiff was denied tenure because the professor lacked authority to make tenure decisions
• rejecting a professor’s claim that the University had an “informal tenure obligation” because he met the policy’s specific standards of excellence and his department chairman had “assured him that his progress [toward tenure] was satisfactory”
• “[W]hen the state provides an explicit and formal policy governing entitlement to a job, informal and customary understandings do not create a property interest ... ”
• “Therefore, his statement did not concern a matter within the scope of his agency and was made in his capacity as wiseacre only.”

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