ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTIONS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL ...

considered:
Delimitations
In order to achieve a concentrated focus of study, the following delimitations should be
1. Legal analysis was limited to cases litigated involving school administrators (i.e.,
principals and assistant principals).
2. The cases represented litigation pertaining to the demotion, reassignment, and/or
termination of school administrators.
3. The cases were limited to opinions from United States Supreme Court, United States
Court of Appeals, United States Federal District Court, state supreme courts, and state appellate
courts.
4. The study was limited to the contractual law that binds school systems and
administrators to one another and to what degree those two can be separated from each other.
2010.
5. The cases that were analyzed were limited to decisions occurring from1981 through
Definitions of Pertinent Legal Terms
Adjudge: (1) adjudicate; (2) to award, grant or impose judicially (Merriam Webster’s
Dictionary of Law, 1996, p. 12).
Adjudicate: (1) to settle either finally or temporarily on the merits of the issues raised; (2)
to pass judgment on as a judge: settle judicially; (3) to pronounce judicially to be; (4) to convey
by judicial sale: to come to a judicial decision: to act as judge (Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of
Law, 1996, p. 12).
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