Georgia Professional Standards Commission v. James

Miller, Judge.

This appeal arises from the decision of the State of Georgia Professional Standards Commission (“PSC”) to revoke the teaching certificate of former school principal Joey Dewayne James. After an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) affirmed the PSC’s decision, James filed a petition for judicial review in the Superior Court of Dougherty County. The superior court reversed, finding that the PSC violated James’s due process rights because the PSC based its decision to revoke James’s teaching certificate on grounds other than and different from those contained in the hearing notice that…