# Coosa County Board of Education v. Hamilton

> Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · July 28, 2000 · 778 So. 2d 831

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7738923

## Case

- **Full name:** Coosa County Board of Education v. Shelia Hamilton, Calvin Edwards, and William Whetstone.
- **Court:** Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
- **Decided:** July 28, 2000
- **Citations:** 778 So. 2d 831; 2000 Ala. Civ. App. LEXIS 450; 2000 WL 1036352
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Yates
- **Judges:** Thompson, Robertson, Monroe, Crawley, Yates
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7738923

## Opinion text

YATES, Judge,
concurring specially.
I agree with the majority that the discrepancy in pay between former vocational-shuttle drivers and the plaintiffs does not violate § 16-8-10, nor does it amount to an equal-protection violation. The voca *837 tional-shuttle drivers were paid an extra “half-contract” to compensate them for additional duties. The Board has never paid more than “one contract” to new drivers who did not run the vocational shuttles and none of the plaintiffs have ever driven a vocational shuttle. Continuing to pay the former shuttle drivers at a “contract-and-a-half” until their retirement or dismissal does not constitute an equal-protection violation, because it maintains the status quo and deters economic losses that could occur if fair-dismissal hearings were held.

---

Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7738923. Public record. Not legal advice.