Adams v. St. John the Baptist Parish School Board

| .EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the St. John the Baptist Parish School Board from a judgment reversing its decision to terminate a tenured teacher on grounds of willful neglect of duty and dishonesty. For the following reasons, we affirm that judgment.

The following facts are undisputed. Merita Adams, plaintiff-appellee, began teaching chemistry in the St. John school system in 1993 and eventually was given tenure. During 1997 she began to suffer from work related stress. She consulted Dr. Padmini Nagaraj, a psychiatrist, who diagnosed her condition as major…