Legal Opinion
Couch v. San Juan Unified School District
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 17, 1995No. C017509PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SIMS, Acting P. J.
Plaintiff Alfred O. Couch worked as a campus security officer, or “monitor,” at Rio Americano High School in Carmichael. On arriving at work on the morning of February 28, 1992, he was shown a portion of an article in that day’s edition of the school newspaper. He concluded, without reading the rest of the article, that it accused him of being, among other things, a murderer and a drug dealer. Despite the apologies of the article’s authors, he resigned his position, claiming that he could no longer feel comfortable working at the school. He then sued defendant San…
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