Ohio Valley Contractors v. BOARD OF ED., ETC.

How courts have described this case

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

• analyzing English, early federal, and early Virginia authorities to conclude that “County school boards are not entitled to a common law governmental immunity. They were not even a part of ‘common law’ government.”
• fact that education is statewide concern does not mean that board of education is arm of state when board is subject to local control
• “Local boards of education do not have state constitutional immunity nor common law governmental immunity from suit.”
• “Local boards of education do not have state constitutional immunity nor common law governmental immunity from suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).