Lee v. Giangreco

NEUMAN, Justice.

Plaintiff Laurie Mallone Lee’s career as a teacher at the Iowa School for the Deaf (ISD) ended abruptly when a steep decline in enrollment compelled the superintendent, defendant C. Joseph Giangreco, to reduce the size of his staff. The question is whether Giangreco’s decision to terminate Lee afforded her the procedural and substantive due process protections to which she was entitled as a tenured teacher and state employee. From jury verdicts finding Lee’s rights abridged, Giangreco has appealed. We affirm.

Lee taught industrial arts at ISD from August 1978 through May 1987.…