175 W. Va. 56 - Mullins v. Kiser’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 154 W. Va. 397 - State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood · 153 W. Va. 867 - State Ex Rel. Withers v. Board of Ed. of Mason Co. · State ex rel. Key v. Bond · 155 W. Va. 193 - Smith v. Siders · Mason Cty. Bd. of Ed. v. State Supt. of Sch.
Most-quoted passages
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““[A] public school employee may be dismissed on a complaint initiated by a citizen outside the school system. Mason Cty. Bd. of Educ. v. State Supt. of Schools, [165] W.Va. [732], 274 S.E.2d 435, 439 (1981). A school board has a duty to consider and act on such citizens’ complaints, and may be compelled to do so by appropriate legal action if its inaction is arbitrary. See, e.g., State ex rel. Withers v. Board of Educ., 153 W.Va. 867, 879-81 , 172 S.E.2d 796, 802-04 (1970).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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