Humane Society v. New Jersey Fish & Game Council

How later courts describe this case

• holding defense of qualified immunity available in Title VII suit for backpay against individual school board members; specific issue whether Title VII authorizes backpay awards against such officials neither raised nor decided
• taking into account conveyance to district's board of commissioners all powers "of a body corporate” in concluding that hospital district is not entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity
• court upheld dismissal of homosexual who engaged in “notorious conduct and open flaunting and careless display of unorthodox sexual conduct in public.”
• school officials entitled to official immunity despite having violated Title VII by denying sick leave to pregnant teacher
• denial of sick leave to pregnant teachers upheld in the face of a Title VII attack
• rational connection required between conduct complained of and grounds for discharge of civilian employee
• Statute limiting appointment to Fish and Game Commission to farmers, sportsmen and commercial fisheries held within Salyer exception because of specialized subject matter not within normal governmental services