Legal Opinion
Petrowski v. Norwich Free Academy
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided January 10, 1984No. (2415)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDupont, J.
The sole issue of this appeal 1 is whether two lawyers who were members of the board of trustees of a privately endowed high school could, without a denial of due process rights accorded by the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution, 2 participate in a hearing and a decision on whether to terminate a tenured teacher’s contract of employment with the school, when other members of their law firm, both prior to, and as of the date of the hearing, represented the school in other unrelated matters and considered the school a representative client for purposes of legal advertising.
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2Cases cited39 opinions
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Tumey v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Withrow v. LarkinSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- In Re Murchison.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Gibson v. BerryhillSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by10 opinions
- New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Hartford, Inc. v. Commission on Hospitals & Health CareSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1993
- Petrowski v. Norwich Free AcademySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1986
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- Local 530, AFSCME, Council 15 v. City of New HavenConnecticut Appellate Court · 1986
- Continental Casualty Company v. PullmanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
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