Joseph Lyznicki v. Board of Education, School District 167, Cook County, Illinois

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• holding that, because Illinois high-school principal on yearly contract “was not terminated till the end of the contract year,” he “cannot base [a claimed right under state law] on contract”
• holding that plaintiff was not deprived of any property interest when the board voted to renew his employment but months later reversed its vote, as plaintiff had not signed a contract for renewal
• holding that tenured teacher, “if he had been discharged from his teaching position he would have been able to complain that he had been deprived of a property right within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
• holding reclassification statute “makes employment as a principal employment at will, which Roth held created no Fourteenth Amendment property right”
• considering a similar claim by a principal based on the Illinois School Code

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).