CAPE ELIZABETH SCH. v. CAPE ELIZABETH TEACHERS


435 A.2d 1381 (1981)

CAPE ELIZABETH SCHOOL BOARD v. CAPE ELIZABETH TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided October 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jensen, Baird, Gardner & Henry, Nicholas S. Nadzo (orally), Merton G. Henry, Michael A. Nelson, Portland, for plaintiff.

Sunenblick, Fontaine & Reben, Howard T. Reben (orally), Stephen P. Sunenblick, Portland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and GODFREY, NICHOLS, ROBERTS, CARTER, VIOLETTE and WATHEN, JJ.


WATHEN, Justice.

This appeal is brought by the Cape Elizabeth School Board from a declaratory judgment determining a grievance arbitrable and requiring the Board to submit to binding arbitration its decision to dismiss Martin Burke, a teacher in the Cape Elizabeth School system. We find that this case is controlled by the Uniform Arbitration Act (hereinafter the Act), 14 M.R.S.A. §§ 5927-5949 (1980), rather than the Declaratory Judgments Act, 14 M.R.S.A...

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