GRAZIANO v. AMHERST EXEMPTED VILLAGE BD. OF EDN.

No. 86-1747.

32 Ohio St. 3d 289 (1987)

GRAZIANO, APPELLANT, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE AMHERST EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided September 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall & Melhorn, John G. Mattimoe, Richard M. Kerger and Dominick J. Graziano, for appellant.

Whalen & Compton Co., L.P.A., Dennis M. Whalen and R. Brent Minney, for appellee.

Means, Bichimer, Burkholder & Baker Co., L.P.A., Robert T. Baker, Kimball H. Carey and Richard W. Ross, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio School Boards Association.

Green, Haines, Sgambati, Murphy & Macala Co., L.P.A., Dennis Haines and Barry Laine, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Education Association.


Per Curiam.

The main issues in this cause require a construction by this court of the applicable standard of review in a teacher-contract-termination case. The determinative statute in issue, R.C. 3319.16, as it read at the time relevant herein, provided in relevant part:

"The contract of a teacher may not be terminated except for gross inefficiency or immorality; for willful and persistent violations of reasonable regulations of the board of education...

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