Adams v. BD. OF TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY

Over 100 persons sued the University of South Alabama's board of trustees, its president, and its director of personnel relations (hereinafter, collectively referred to as "the University"). The plaintiffs, all of whom are, or were at one time, employees of the University, asked the trial court to affirmatively enjoin the University to implement the provisions in its employee handbook by providing annual job performance evaluations for each plaintiff and to recalculate merit pay and salary increases after performing the evaluations.

Over 60 of the plaintiffs settled their claims against the…