Lee v. Hale County Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• holding § 14 immunity barred claim for breach of implied contract asserted against Hale County Board of Education
• overruling prior state precedent to hold that Alabama county board of education was entitled to State immunity on breach-of- contract claim
• “Because county boards of education are local agencies of the State, they are clothed in constitutional immunity from suit.”
• county boards of education are local agencies of the state and therefore are “clothed in constitutional immunity”
• “Because county boards of education are local agencies of the [s]tate, they are clothed in constitutional immunity from suit[.]”

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