BISHOP v. IOWA STATE BD. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

No. 85-1616.

395 N.W.2d 888 (1986)

Lewis BISHOP and Ronald Thompson, Appellants, v. IOWA STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, Iowa State Department of Public Instruction, and Valley Community School District, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Sayre of Sayre & Gribble, P.C., Des Moines, for appellants.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Merle Wilna Fleming, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Allan J. Carew of Fuerste, Carew, Coyle, Juergens & Sudmeier, Dubuque, for appellees.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and McGIVERIN, WOLLE, LAVORATO, and NEUMAN, JJ.


McGIVERIN, Justice.

Lewis Bishop and Ronald Thompson petitioned for judicial review of the decision of the Iowa State Board of Public Instruction (BPI) authorizing the school board of the Valley Community School District (District) in its discretion to pay attorney's fees incurred by the District superintendent, Richard Burmeister, in proceedings before the Iowa professional teaching practices commission. The district court ruled the school board had the power to...

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