Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al.
AdministrativeLaw SocialSecurity DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Denial of due process rights to tenured professors in university merger, equal protection challenge to disciplinary record requirement, vagueness challenge to merger legislation
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED I. Whether Fourteenth Amendment due process rights should be denied to tenured professors when two universities (The University of Texas-Pan American and The University of Texas at Brownsville) merge? II. Whether the requirement that tenured professors at the merged higher education institution (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) not have any disciplinary record within seven years of application is rational under an equal protection analysis? III. Whether the phrases “as many” and “prudent and practical” in the Act that provided “the board of regents shall facilitate the employment at the university created by this Act of as many faculty and staff of the abolished universities as is prudent and practical” are unconstitutionally vague on their face?