Hearne v. Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees of the Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that due process requires that Board consult closely with hearing officer “where credibility is the determining factor and where as in this case the final decision making body reverses each and every credibility finding of the hearing officer”
• holding that due process requires that Board consult closely with hearing officer “where credibility is the determining factor and where as in this case the final decision making body reverses each and every credibility finding of the hearing officer”
• “[T]he decision of the Board in teacher and principal dismissal cases terminates the proceedings before the administrative agency and constitutes the final administrative decision.”
• “[T]he decision of the Board in teacher and principal dismissal cases terminates the proceedings before the administrative agency and constitutes the final administrative decision.”
• the Board has “the final decisionmaking authority in teacher *** dismissal proceedings,” and it is the Board’s decision, not the recommendation of the hearing officer, which courts of law are to review
• Board is vested “with the final administrative decision on teacher *** removal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).