# Belcher v. Jefferson County Bd. of Educ.

> Supreme Court of Alabama · July 19, 1985 · 474 So. 2d 1063

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9936639

## Case

- **Full name:** Leann Belcher v. Jefferson County Board of Education: Betsy Faucette, Harriett Gwin, Kevin Walsh, Mary Buckelew, Bill Mewbourne, Individually and as Members of the Jefferson County Board of Education and Kenneth Abbott, Individually and as Principal of Hewitt-Trussville High School and Henry Allen Graham v. Jefferson County Board of Education Betsy Faucette Harriett Gwin Kevin Walsh Mary Buckelew Bill Mewbourne, Individually and as Members of the Jefferson County Board of Education and Their Successors in Office and Haywood Atkinson, Individually and as Principal of Hueytown High School.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** July 19, 1985
- **Citations:** 474 So. 2d 1063; 27 Educ. L. Rep. 620
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Torbert
- **Judges:** Adams, Torbert
- **Cited by:** 40 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/9936639

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that the plaintiff "filed suit . . . alleging breach of contract and violation of his constitutional rights, in that the Board failed to follow the procedures" in question (emphasis added)
- affirming the dismissal of a claim where “the appellants did not sufficiently allege the requisite elements”

## Opinion text

I deem it necessary to write because the majority should have distinguished this case from Gowens v. Cherokee County Bd. of Ed. , 348 So.2d 441 (Ala. 1977), the case relied upon by the trial court. The issue presented in this case is not the same as that presented in Gowens . The issue here is whether a teacher has an action for breach of contract when the Board fails to follow seemingly applicable Board policy. In Gowens , we concluded that the Board policy was not applicable to the facts in that case.

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