United States Third Circuit

Whether a university registrar is told that a student's performance rates an "F " or an "Incomplete" is not a matter warranting judicial oversight on First Amendment grounds, and a professor's failure to show that the university retaliated against him for his speech is fatal to retaliatory claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/12/2001
• Decided 04/17/2001
• Published 04/17/2001

Judges

• Before MANSMANN, BARRY and COWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• D. Michael Fisher, Attorney General, John G. Knorr, III, (Argued), Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Appellate Litigation Section, Office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Department of Justice, Harrisburg, PA, Counsel for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Golden, (Argued), Pittsburgh, PA, Counsel for Appellee.