Legal Opinion
Abbamont v. Piscataway Township Board of Education
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided December 22, 1994PublishedCited by 222 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
*410HANDLER, J.
In this case, a non-tenured public school industrial arts teacher claimed that his employer, the local board of education, through its supervisory employees, retaliated against him by not rehiring him as a tenured teacher because he complained about inadequate health and safety conditions in the school’s metal shop. The teacher filed a complaint against the board of education alleging that its conduct violated the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -9 (CEPA). The board contended that it was not vicariously liable for…
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