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BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF HATTIESBURG MUN. SEPARATE SCH. DIST. v. GATES

No. 54216.

461 So.2d 730 (1984)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE HATTIESBURG MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT v. Peggy G. Gates.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. David Watkins, William L. Smith, Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, Moran Pope, Pope & Pope, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Thomas M. Matthews, Jr., Parsons & Matthews, Wiggins, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and HAWKINS and PRATHER, JJ.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

The basic issue in this appeal involves the constitutional question of free speech balanced against the substantial evidence rule in a teacher non-renewal case. Peggy G. Gates was not reemployed by the Board of Trustees of the Hattiesburg Municipal Separate School District (the Board), and appealed that decision to Forrest County Chancery Court asserting that her non-reemployment was because of her exercise of her constitutional right...

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