Four Tenured Professors Sue Centenary University for Wrongful Termination Share Article Citing decades of service and scholarship, the tenure protections provided by Centenary’s own Constitution, and New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination, Professors James Patterson, Carol Yoshimine, Chris Adamo, and Patrick Maley, the law firm of Morris, Downing & Sherred, LLP, file suit challenging the professors' surprise December 2019 terminations. NEWTON, N.J. (PRWEB) February 19, 2021 Attorneys for Morris, Downing & Sherred, LLP have filed a civil damages action in the Superior Court of New Jersey (Patterson et al. v. Centenary University at al., SSX-L-00069-21) claiming that Centenary University’s firing of four esteemed tenured professors violated their hard-earned academic tenure rights, rights guaranteed to them by Centenary’s Constitution. The lawsuit also alleges that Centenary and its senior administrators and former Board of Trustees Chairman illegally targeted Patterson and Yoshimine because of their advanced ages and Adamo due to their transgender status.