Short v. Nevada Joint Union High School District

Opinion

SIMS, J.

Plaintiff Kennith L. Short, formerly chief of security at Nevada Union High School, brought suit after the Nevada Joint Union High School District (District) eliminated the high school’s security department, an action which effectively terminated plaintiff’s employment. Plaintiff claimed the elimination of the security department was a subterfuge undertaken to mask the District’s true purpose, which was to get rid of plaintiff.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of defendants District and school administrators Theis Murphy, Bruce Griffith, and Kermit Young, entered after…