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First Name JAMES
Last Name JOHNSON
Decision Date 1/16/1990
Docket Number 89-49-508
ALJ RN
Respondent UPSHUR COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
Employment Type PROF
Job Title
Topics SELECTION
Primary Issues Whether failure to interview applicants for girls basketball coach was a major flaw such that outcome might have been different.
Outcome DENIED
Statutes 18A-4-8B
Related Cases STOVER
Keywords
Intermediate Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Synopsis GRIEVANT, A CLASSROOM TEACHER AND HEAD CROSS-COUNTY AND TRACK COACH AT BUCHKANNON-UPSHUR HIGH SCHOOL, FILED A GRIEVANCE PROTESTING HIS NON-SELECTION AS GIRLS HEAD BASKETBALL COACH. DECISION: GRIEVANCE DENIED. A COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION IS OBLIGATED TO FILL A VACANT PROFESSIONAL POSITION WITH THE MOST QUALIFIED APPLICANT. GRIEVANT HAS NOT PROVEN, BY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE, THAT THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT WAS LESS QUALIFIED.

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