Al-Sulaibe Ex Rel. Jones v. Monroe County Board of Education

The Monroe County Board of Education (“the Board”) and Frankye Beal, a fifth-grade teacher at Beatrice Elementary School in Monroe County, petition this Court for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Dawn W. Hare to grant their motions for a summary judgment dismissing Pamela Jones Al-Sulaibe’s tort claims against them because, they say, they are entitled to immunity — absolute immunity as to the Board and State-agent immunity as to Beal. We grant the petition and issue the writ as to the Board; we deny the petition as to Beal.

Facts

On February 27, 2007, Beal disciplined then 12-year-old Rashid…