Alabama: College ordered to reinstate fired administrator as instructor

by E Wayne Ross on April 7, 2008

Press-Register: College ordered to reinstate Thomas

Byrne vows to appeal arbitrator’s order that impeached school board member be reinstated by community college

Impeached Mobile County school board member David Thomas was fired unjustly by Bishop State Community College and the school must immediately take him back as a teacher, an arbitrator has decided.

“His treatment is found to have been rooted in the arbitrary application of a nonexistent policy, devoid of reasonable standards and a fair and proper investigation,” Hearing Officer Thomas Humphries wrote in his decision, dated March 28.