Ex Parte Wright

Certain Mobile County public school teachers, who had attained continuing service status under the Alabama Teacher Tenure Act, were presented new contracts for the next school year that reduced by one the number of months they would be employed, with a resulting reduction in pay. Each signed and returned the contract with a letter attached expressing the teachers' displeasure and advising that the contract was signed "under protest and under duress." Subsequently, an attorney acting for the teachers sent a letter to the superintendent, again stating the teachers' displeasure with the…