LaPointe v. Vermilion Parish School Board

EZELL, Judge.

| |At issue in this case is whether Section 3 of Act 1 of the 2012 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature as it amends La.R.S. 17:443 is unconstitutional because it violates the due process rights of tenured public school teachers. For the following reasons,, we find' that Section 3 of Act 1 does violate the due process rights of tenured public school teachers to which they are entitled to under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 1, § 2 of the Louisiana Constitution.

FACTS

Kasha LaPointe was employed by the Vermilion Parish School Board as a…