Legal Opinion
Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 21, 1974No. 72-777PublishedCited by 954 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The respondents in No. 72-777 and the petitioner in No. 72-1129 are female public school teachers. During the 1970-1971 school year, each informed her local school board that she was pregnant; each was compelled by a mandatory maternity leave rule to quit her job without pay several months before the expected birth of her child. These cases call upon us to decide the constitutionality of the school boards’ rules.
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Jo Carol LaFleur and Ann Elizabeth Nelson, the respondents in No. 72-777, are junior high school teachers employed by the Board of Education of Cleveland, Ohio. Pursuant to a rule…
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