Gerald Castille v. St. Martin Parish School Board

hi respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision to reverse the award of damages to Mr. Castille. While the majority correctly determines that the School Board breached its contractual obligations to Mr. Castille, the majority errs in finding this breach was not in bad faith.

La. R.S. 17:493.1 provides that “whenever a school bus operator is needed to drive a new route or a route vacated by a previous operator, the school bus operator who is tenured and has acquired the greatest seniority shall be offered the opportunity to and may change from driving his route to the vacant route before…