Claim of Athletic Department Compliance Officer Survives Appeal

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the ruling of a district court that the Board of Governors at Marshall University as well as several school administrators are not entitled to qualified immunity in a case where a former compliance director claimed he was fired from his job in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process.   In essence, the panel of judges deferred to the allegations made by the plaintiff that the administrators made a calculated decision to us