PLACER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Filed 7/20/10
CERTIFIED
FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION*
IN THE COURT OF
APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
THIRD APPELLATE
DISTRICT
(Placer)
CHRISTINA CONN,
Plaintiff and Appellant,
v.
WESTERN PLACER UNIFIED SCHOOL
DISTRICT et al.,
Defendants and Respondents.
C059754
(Super.
Ct. Nos. SCV18938 &
SCV20084)
STORY CONTINUE
FROM PART I….
II
Defendants
Bliss, Noyes, and Yohe
are
not Exempt From Liability
On appeal from a
judgment on a directed verdict, we view the evidence in the light most
favorable to the appellant. All
conflicts must be resolved and inferences drawn in the appellant's favor. If there is substantial evidence to support
the appellant's claim, and if the state of the law also supports that claim, we
must reverse the judgment. (Margolin
(2000) 85 Cal.App.4th 891, 895.)
Conn contends the trial â€
| Description | The Reporting by School Employees of Improper Governmental Activities Act (Act), a whistle-blower act, (Ed. Code, §§ 44110-44114),[1] in section 44113, makes school officials liable in damages for interfering with the right of a school teacher to disclose evidence of improper governmental activities to an administrator or school board. Plaintiff, Christina Conn, a second year probationary teacher, was denied tenure when she was not reelected to a third year of employment.[2] She claims that her nonreelection was intended to interfere with her right to disclose †|
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