11 results for 'cat:"Education" AND cat:"Employment" AND cat:"Contract"'.
[Consolidated.] Per curiam, the circuit finds on remand that the district court improperly dismissed contract claims brought by high-ranking employees who had been fired from their jobs with a big city school district because the women's internship certificates had been discounted as meeting professional requirements for leadership roles under their employment agreements, even when state education overseers opined that the certificates rendered them qualified, raising questions of fact better left to trial.
Court: 2nd Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: April 4, 2024, Case #: 22-2810, Categories: education, employment, contract
J. Kafker reverses in part the granting of summary judgment in favor of a university against members of its tenured faculty suing it for requiring them to obtain 50% of their individual salaries from external research funding to avoid salary cuts and being reduced to part-time employees, and for requiring that their external funding maintain a specific cost recovery rate to avoid reductions in the size of their labs. While summary judgment is appropriate concerning lab sizes, because nothing in the faculty members’ tenure documents guarantees lab space, it is not appropriate where it concerns economic security, which is included in the tenure documents and could limit the university’s ability to reduce salary and full-time status.
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Court, Judge: Kafker, Filed On: March 14, 2024, Case #: SJC-13472, Categories: education, employment, contract
J. Williams grants, in part, Yale University's motion for summary judgment, ruling the former chief of cardiovascular medicine cannot make a plausible contract claim related to his removal from that position after sexual assault allegations. His employment agreement with the university guaranteed only his job as a professor. However, because the removal of several honorific titles and endowments after the allegations could be considered an adverse employment action under precedent from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the sex discrimination claim will proceed.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Williams, Filed On: January 17, 2024, Case #: 3:19cv1547, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment Discrimination, contract
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J. Christopher finds that the lower court properly reversed the education commissioner's decision upholding the school district's termination of a teacher's contract relating to her actions in administering the STAAR test. The evidence did not show that the teacher violated "accepted standards of conduct for the profession as generally recognized and applied in similarly situated school districts" in Texas. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Christopher, Filed On: November 16, 2023, Case #: 14-22-00418-CV, Categories: education, employment, contract
J. Armstead finds that the circuit court erred in affirming the grievance board’s decision restoring two separate bus routes an employee drove for the board of education. The bus driver, who worked for the district since 1980, complained after the board determined a second vocational bus route was improperly awarded to her via contract in 1985. The vocational route contract was illegal because it conflicted with the driver’s primary route contract, which was never modified to account for a change in destinations or an overlapping schedule. The circuit court erred by accepting the grievance and concluding the board had no duty to correct the mistake, in spite of its significance. Reversed.
Court: West Virginia Supreme Court Of Appeals, Judge: Armstead, Filed On: November 8, 2023, Case #: 22-234, Categories: education, employment, contract
J. Ledet finds that the trial court should not have found for a university on a professor’s contractual due process claim after he was disciplined, and his class schedule was altered. Although the university eventually reverted back to the professor’s original schedule of classes, the disciplinary letter still affected his personal and professional standing. Reversed.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Ledet, Filed On: October 27, 2023, Case #: 2023-CA-0295, Categories: education, employment, contract
J. Rayes grants a university's motion for summary judgment on a former adjunct faculty member's contract claims. The university sufficiently showed in court that it was not obligated to renew the faculty member's contract, and that the decision was based on low enrollment, and for inadequate performance.
Court: USDC Arizona, Judge: Rayes, Filed On: September 29, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv8020, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: education, employment, contract
J. Darrow grants a university's board of trustees' motion for summary judgment concerning a tenure track assistant professor's wrongful denial of tenure claims. The board of trustees sufficiently showed in court that the tenured professor could not adequately perform her work duties after suffering a pulmonary embolism and traumatic brain injury, which unfortunately left her with a diminished field of vision, a drop foot, and mild aphasia.
Court: USDC Central District of Illinois, Judge: Darrow, Filed On: August 24, 2023, Case #: 4:20cv4232, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: education, employment, contract