Jackson v. Putnam County Board of Education

(Filed June 27, 2007)

I write separately to express my disagreement with the majority opinion in this case. The majority opinion simply ignores the law of the case in order to reach its result-oriented decision favoring the Putnam County Board of Education (“Board”).

The majority decision rests on a single point, namely, the majority’s refusal to recognize the existence of the Putnam County School Board regulations (“Policy Manual”).1 The majority steadfastly takes the position that “the Policy Manual was not ‘before the Court.’” This refusal to acknowledge the Policy Manual is the only basis…