Phillips v. Orleans Parish School Board

JjWALTZER, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

On 21 November 1978, plaintiffs, Patricia Phillips and Carrie Swanson, filed suit on their behalf and as representatives of a purported class of all special education teachers who began employment with the Orleans Parish School Board at the beginning of the fall semester of the 1977-78 school year. Plaintiffs claimed entitlement to a ten percent salary supplement enacted by the state legislature in 1977 by amendment to La.R.S. 17:427. By amended petition, plaintiffs defined the class further as those special education teachers who commenced employment…