California Court of Appeal

Determination that provisionally credentialed teachers, terminated as part of a district-wide reduction in force, were not entitled to a hearing and preferential reappointment rights is reversed as the teachers fell within the default classification of "probationary" and were entitled to rights and protections.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/29/2007
• Published 03/29/2007

Judges

• McGUINESS, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Beeson, Tayer & Bodine, David N. Weintraub and Sarah Sandford-Smith Batt, for Plaintiffs and Appellants., Driscoll & Associates, Thomas J. Driscoll, Jr., Lodi, for Bakersfield Elementary Teachers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Weinberg, Roger and Rosenfeld and Stewart Weinberg, Alameda, for California Federal of Teachers as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Miller Brown & Dannis, Gregory J. Dannis, Lawrence M. Schoenke, San Francisco, Amy R. Levine and Damara Moore, for Defendants and Respondents., Law Offices of Margaret A. Chidester & Associates, Margaret A. Chidester and Cathie L. Fields, Irvine, for California School Boards Association's Education Legal Alliance as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.