Porter v. Board of School Directors

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Daryl Porter appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County affirming the action of the Board of School Directors of the Clairton School District expelling him from the Clairton Senior High School on account of his involvement in an altercation following an interscholastic basketball game in the evening of February 12,1980.

A hearing was conducted by an examiner on March 3, 1980, at which time Daryl, the high school principal and the superintendent of schools, an adult eyewitness to the incident, and a number of student participants testified. On…