Legal Opinion
Dodd v. Meno
Texas Supreme Court
Decided March 9, 1994No. D-3633PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPhillips, Chief Justice
joined by GONZALEZ, HECHT, CORNYN, and ENOCH, Justices.
The question in this ease is whether a school nurse is a “teacher” within the meaning of the Term Contract Nonrenewal Act (TCNA), Tex.Educ.Code §§ 21.201-.211, and thereby entitled to the protections conferred by that statute. We conclude that the Legislature did not intend the TCNA to apply to school nurses, and we therefore affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.
Petitioner Doris Dodd was employed as a full-time school nurse by the Wink-Loving Independent School District under a contract that expired at the end of the 1987-88 school…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Tarrant Appraisal District v. MooreTexas Supreme Court · 1993
- Burch v. City of San AntonioTexas Supreme Court · 1975
- Grounds v. Tolar Independent School DistrictTexas Supreme Court · 1993
- Hightower v. State Commissioner of EducationCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1989
- Doris Dodd v. Lionel R. Meno as the State Commissioner of Education and Successor to William N. Kirby, and Wink-Loving Independent School District, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)1993
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- Upjohn Co. v. Rylander, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2000
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