Pounder v. Harper Woods Board of Education

The plaintiff was suspended from her position as a physical education instructor for failing to report for work for approximately one month. Following a hearing before the defendant school board, the plaintiff was discharged. The teachers’ tenure commission reversed on the grounds that the school board’s refusal to grant the plaintiff’s last-minute request to subpoena a doctor whose report was in evidence constituted a denial of due process and violated MCLA 38.104(g); MSA 15.2004(g). The commission awarded "all salary lost” to the plaintiff. The defendant appealed to the Wayne Circuit Court,…