Elizabeth School Board Must Pay Wrongly Fired Lawyer Damages
“An appellate panel ruled Elizabeth’s School Board must pay roughly $260,000 in damages after findings its in-house counsel was improperly fired midway through a three-year contract,” reports Nikita Biryukoy in New Jersey Globe’s Local News.
“The school board fired Kirk Nelson after he was arrested in April 2013 as part of an investigation into the school board’s administration of the National School Lunch Program.”
“The body received several state and federal subpoenas on its administration of the program in 2011 and 2012 that led to criminal charges against several of its members.”
“Nelson told the court he was arrested because he failed to produce a document in response to a subpoena.”
