Legal Opinion
Stoshak v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 21, 2007No. 2006 CA 0852PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
McClendon, j.
| gThis appeal challenges a trial court’s ruling that a teacher, who was struck by a punch thrown by one of two fighting students while he attempted to break up their fight, was not the victim of an “assault or battery by any student or person” and thus was not entitled to the highest level of sick leave benefits provided for in La. R.S. 17:1201(C). We reverse.
BACKGROUND
On August 20, 2004, John Stoshak, a teacher at Istrouma High School in Baton Rouge, was injured when he attempted to break up a fight between two of his students. During the course of the students’ fistfight, one…
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