VALLEY v. RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 96-30441.

118 F.3d 1047 (1997)

Virgie Lee VALLEY; et al., Plaintiffs, v. RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD; Sylvia Pearson; Walter Gatlin; Herbert Dixon; Kenneth Doyle; Stanley Miller; Rodessa Metoyer, in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellants, v. Betty J. COX, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 24, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Hammonds, Hammonds & Sills, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Henry B. Bruser, III, James Michael Chamblee, Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues & Rundell, Alexandria, LA, for Intervenor-Appellee.

Before DUHE, BENAVIDES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


STEWART, Circuit Judge:

Appellants appeal the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction reinstating appellee Dr. Betty Cox ("Cox") as Rapides Parish School Superintendent. Appellants voted to terminate Cox after conducting a fifty-five-hour hearing in which they determined that Cox was unfit to continue as superintendent. After a careful review of the record, we affirm the grant of the preliminary injunction.

BACKGROUND

Cox was permitted...

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