Pounder v. Harper Woods Board of Education

The plaintiff was suspended from her teaching position for failing to report for work. She claimed her absence was due to medical problems. Her request to have a doctor subpoenaed to appear at the hearing before the defendant school board was denied. The *95board’s decision to discharge her was reversed by the teacher’s tenure commission on the basis that she was denied due process of the law because "the law was violated by the board in failing to hear the appellant’s [plaintiffs] request to subpoena an important witness”. The tenure commission also awarded the plaintiff all salary lost.

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