Supreme Court of California

The bar of Education Code section 44944(a), which prohibits the introduction of evidence relating to matters occurring more than four years before a school district files a notice of intention to dismiss a teacher, is not absolute. The bar may be evaluated in the context of equitable estoppel when the basis of equitable relief is established.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2007
• Published 06/04/2007

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Driscoll & Associates and Thomas J. Driscoll, Jr., for Real Party in Interest and Appellant., John F. Kohn, Beverly Tucker, Rosalind D. Wolf, Robert E. Lindquist, Brenda E. Sutton-Wills, Michael D. Hersh and Joseph R. Colton for California Teachers Association as Amicus Curiac on behalf of Real Party in Interest and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lozano Smith,Michael E. Smith, Fresno, Howard A. Friedman, Stephen A. Mendyk, Fresno, Jesse J. Maddox and Martha B. Scott, Monterey, for Plaintiff and Respondent., John Bukey, Richard Hamilton and Judith Cias for Education Legal Alliance of the California School Boards Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., No appearance for Defendant and Respondent.