Monroe v. Oakland Unified School District

Opinion

TAYLOR, P. J.

Oakland Unified School District (district) appeals from a judgment 1 entered on a jury verdict finding that it had breached each of the plaintiffs’ fixed term contracts when the district reallocated certain federal funds, and terminated the previously unemployed plaintiffs before the end of 1975. The district’s major contentions are that the trial court erred and abused its discretion by excluding evidence of one of the plaintiff’s arrests and misdemeanor convictions, by excluding evidence on the district’s defense of impracticability, and by applying the collateral source…