LEE v. GIANGRECO

No. 91-208.

490 N.W.2d 814 (1992)

Laurie Mallone LEE, Appellee, v. C. Joseph GIANGRECO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 23, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Gordon E. Allen, Deputy Atty. Gen., and John M. Parmeter, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Becky S. Knutson of Sayre & Gribble, P.C., Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by SCHULTZ, P.J., and LAVORATO, NEUMAN, SNELL and ANDREASEN, JJ.


NEUMAN, Justice.

Plaintiff Laurie Mallone Lee's career as a teacher at the Iowa School for the Deaf (ISD) ended abruptly when a steep decline in enrollment compelled the superintendent, defendant C. Joseph Giangreco, to reduce the size of his staff. The question is whether Giangreco's decision to terminate Lee afforded her the procedural and substantive due process protections to which she was entitled as a tenured teacher and state employee. From jury verdicts finding...

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