Ex Parte Craft v. Craft

The petitioners, Dr. Lynda Craft, former interim president of Ayers State Technical College; Dr. Fred Gainous, chancellor of the Department of Post-Secondary Education; and Ayers State Technical College, are the remaining defendants1 in a wrongful-termination action filed by Spencer Tracy Trussell in the Calhoun Circuit Court. The circuit court denied these defendants' motions for summary judgment and ordered the parties to proceed with "discovery, settlement negotiations, or any other action necessary to dispose of this proceeding." These defendants petitioned the Court of Civil Appeals for…