# Newell v. Orleans Parish School Board

> Louisiana Court of Appeal · April 10, 1979 · 370 So. 2d 655

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7496606

## Case

- **Full name:** Paula NEWELL and Cynthia White v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD
- **Court:** Louisiana Court of Appeal
- **Decided:** April 10, 1979
- **Citations:** 370 So. 2d 655; 1979 La. App. LEXIS 4047
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Lemmon
- **Judges:** Gulotta, Lemmon, Stoulig
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

LEMMON, Judge,
concurs and assigns reasons.
R.S. 17:1211 requires school boards to grant leaves of absence to teachers for the purpose of bearing a child, but only for “a reasonable time before and after childbirth”.
If this case involved teachers who had taken authorized maternity leaves for a reasonable time before and after childbirth, I would vote that the active service required by R.S. 17:1171 (even before the 1978 act) had not been interrupted. However, these teachers (insofar as this record shows) went far beyond the reasonable time for a maternity leave as authorized by R.S. 17:1211, and their active service time required for sabbatical leave was interrupted.

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