Franklin v. Alabama State Tenure Com'n

This is an appeal from the denial of a writ of mandamus in a teacher tenure case.

Troy W. Franklin had been a teacher in the Franklin County School System for approximately five years. Near the end of the 1983-84 school year, the Franklin County Board of Education notified Mr. Franklin that a proposal had been made to cancel his teaching contract. On August 17, 1984, the Alabama State Tenure Commission found that this cancellation had been unjust and ordered the contract reinstated. Both parties received notice of this decision on August 17, 1984.

The Franklin County School System opened its…