Atencio v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF PENASCO, ETC.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• surmising that previously tenured school instructor lost tenure rights when reemployed as a certified school administrator
• surmising that previously tenured school instructor lost tenure rights when reemployed as a certified school administrator
• giving “a statute its literal reading if the words used are plain and unambiguous, provided such a construction would not lead to an injustice, absurdity or contradiction”
• “By statute [teachers] are assured an indefinite tenure of position during satisfactory performance of their duties.”
• “[W]e must ... give a statute its literal reading if the words used are plain and unambiguous, provided such a construction would not lead to an injustice, absurdity or contradiction.”
• if language is plain and unambiguous, statute must be given literal reading

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).