Court of Appeals for the First Circuit December 1, 1971, 71-1247 (Patricia Drown v. Portsmouth School District)

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

When this action, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, was before us last term, we held that Patricia Drown, a non-tenured teacher at Portsmouth High School, was entitled to a statement of reasons for the non-renewal of her teaching contract as a matter of procedural due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. Drown v. Portsmouth School District, 435 F.2d 1183 (1970), cert.