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BOARD OF EDUCATION v. CRAWFORD

[No. 31, September Term, 1978.]

284 Md. 245 (1979)

395 A.2d 835

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CHARLES COUNTY v. MARGARET R. CRAWFORD

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward S. Digges, Jr., and Susan Gillette, with whom was Edward S. Digges, Sr., on the brief, for appellant.

Susan W. Russell, with whom were Walter S. Levin and Sauerwein, Boyd & Decker on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, ORTH and COLE, JJ.

SMITH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We shall here hold that the Maryland State Board of Education (the State Board) erred when it awarded back pay to respondent, Margaret R. Crawford (Mrs. Crawford), on the theory of a wrongful dismissal which it regarded as a breach of contract. The only constitutional deprivation suffered by Mrs. Crawford was procedural in nature since the State Board found that she was in fact incompetent. The State Board relied in part...

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