Dr. Raj P. Soni v. Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee

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• holding that a formal tenure system existing in conjunction with a state statute does not preclude a reasonable and legitimate expectancy of continued employment on the basis of a “viable understanding” which supplements the formal tenure system
• University of Tennessee charter permits it to “sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State or elsewhere.”
• “Each state university exists in a unique governmental context, and each must be considered on the basis of its own peculiar circumstances.”
• professor told verbally and in writing that he would have been granted tenure but for lack of United States citizenship, participated in meetings of tenured faculty and in tenured faculty retirement program, and became a citizen

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