Pounder v. Harper Woods Board of Education

Plaintiff was suspended from her position as a physical education instructor in the employ of defendant board of education. After a hearing conducted by the defendant board of education, plaintiff was discharged. Plaintiff then appealed to the Michigan Teachers’ Tenure Commission. On October 28, 1974, the commission reversed the school board and held that plaintiff was entitled to an award of all salary lost. The rationale for the commission’s decision was that the board’s refusal to honor plaintiff’s request to subpoena a doctor, who at the request and direction of the defendant board had…