Huntsville City Board of Education v. Stranahan

The primary issue on appeal is whether James Stranahan and Dwight Holmes received sufficient notice of the reasons for the proposed termination of their employment, pursuant to former § 36-26-103(a), Ala.Code 1975, a part of the former Fair Dismissal Act (“the former FDA”), former § 36-26-100 et seq., Ala.Code 1975, which provided, in pertinent part, that a notice of termination to a nonprobationary employee “shall state the reasons for the proposed termination [and] shall contain a short and plain statement of the facts showing that the termination is taken for one or more of the reasons…