Legal Opinion
Burks v. Amite County School Dist.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided March 26, 1998No. 94-CC-01028-SCTPublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
708 So.2d 1366 (1998)
Alvin BURKS
v.
AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
No. 94-CC-01028-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
March 26, 1998.
Chester Nicholson, Nicholson & Nicholson, Gulfport, for Appellant.
Perry Sansing, Adams & Reese, Thomas F. Badon, Liberty, Ottowa E. Carter, Jr., Jackson, for Appellee.
En Banc.
McRAE, Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. This appeal is from a decision in the Chancery Court of Amite County, finding that the decision by the Amite County School Board to not renew the employment contract of Alvin Burks under Miss. Code Ann. § 37-9-109 et al., was neither racially motivated nor…
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