The most common grounds for dismissing tenured faculty have been incompetence, immorality, neglect of duty, and insubordination. Judicial evaluations of substantive grounds for dismissing tenured postsecondary faculty for cause are discussed. (MLW)

Courts will probably assume that medical residents are entitled to minimal procedural due process when they claim unfair dismissal from a residency program before program termination. Therefore the organization should not create a legitimate claim of expectancy that the resident will be retained beyond specified dates. (MSE)

Discusses use of age-related criteria in hiring/continued employment practices in higher education, focusing on an exception in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act allowing employment-related decisions based on "reasonable factors other than age." The language appears to allow limited use of express age criteria where the employer's…