Ex Parte Greenberg

Dorothy Greenberg, a tenured teacher, filed a petition for writ of certiorari requesting this Court to review the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals which affirmed the trial court's decision to uphold the cancellation of her teaching contract by the Mountain Brook Board of Education and the sustainment of the cancellation by the Alabama State Tenure Commission. We granted the writ of certiorari and now review the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals.

The 1978 hearing in question was Ms. Greenberg's second such hearing before the Board of Education. The prior proceeding resulted in an…