Legal Opinion
School Committee of North Kingstown v. Crouch
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided November 8, 2002No. 2001-213-AppealPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
This case considers whether various arbitration and grievance provisions in a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) apply to a school committee’s dismissal for cause of a tenured teacher. It also addresses the election-of-remedies doctrine. The defendants, John Crouch (Crouch), a former public school principal and tenured teacher, and his union, National Education Association of Rhode Island (union), appeal from a preliminary injunction 1 that barred them from arbitrating Crouch’s termination from employment as a tenured teacher in the Town of North Kingstown (town). They contend that…
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