Carroll v. City of Dothan Board of Education

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a student expulsion case.

After fully complying with procedural due process requirements, the City of Do-than Board of Education (board) expelled Carroll, an eighteen-year-old student, for being intoxicated at a school-sponsored function. He was a senior in a Dothan high school. Carroll petitioned the circuit court to set aside his expulsion, to order his readmission, and to expunge his expulsion from the school records. After an ore ten-us trial, the circuit court denied Carroll’s petition and affirmed the board’s action in expelling him.…