Terry v. Houston County 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.

• noting that public officials should have “broad discretion in the management of school affairs” because “the ability to discharge even tenured personnel when deemed necessary to the proper functioning of the school is essential to the exercise of authority over a school system”
• State and local boards “have a legitimate interest in securing the employ only of those fit to serve the public interest”
• school officials are “considered professionals whose services are affected with the public interest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).