[VonErmad4]

Hey, the law is there to protect people from not getting paid when they are fired for silly reasons (if they win the appeal then all that missed pay is pretty crappy). Sometimes asses take advantage. Just the way it is.

[c6vkuNRg]

Thread is useless without pics...

[KneefeZes]

Please delete them

[masteryxisman]

Thread is useless without pics...

True. So true.

[Marinausa]

No, let her appeal and if overturned pay her back wages

[Wahwlsnt]

Thread title seems to be a false dichotomy.

[EarnestKS]

Thread title seems to be a false dichotomy.

How so?

[Gerribase]

He's saying it's abuse of the system on her part, but also upholding due process of the law (so far as courts are concerned).

Ok,

Im also torn, because while convicted, she does have her right of appeal.

I am however, leaning toward "holding" any further pay pending outcome of legal process having run its course.

Then again, say a person is indeed wrongfully convicted and put away, she may need the money to pay bills or support family.

Tough call, but even those who seem beyond a reasonable doubt to be guilty may end up an innocent victim of an imperfect system.


Gramps

[ananciguinter]

JM: how is that consistent at all with any reasonable sense of justice?

So if you are unjustly convicted but your appeals drag on, the money cuts off?

[pIp83Uns]

That too.

[ThisIsOK]

enticing a child by electronic means

Interesting phrasing on that law...

[AntonioXYZ]

The lesson here is that tenure for elementary and high school teachers is ****ing retarded.

Right. We want teachers who have proven the worth for ten or even twenty years to be put into a situation of being fired because they refused to pick up the principal's dry cleaning!

[spounnypneups]

Slowwy's right. The alternative would be for the courts to speculate and effectively create their own exception to a rule devised by the Alabaman legislature.


Judicial activism

If the article's accurate about the law, Slowwy's wrong, and doing as he suggests would be the courts speculating and effectively creating their own exception to a rule devised by the legislature. As described, the law provides for an appealing teacher to be paid timely through the appeal, and without regard to outcome. Slowwy's solution conditions payment on outcome and defers it until after that is known.

That said, the legislature down here is owned by Paul Hubbert and the teachers' union, so (a) it's not surprising that this situation would arise here, and (b) any thought of rewriting the law is a pipe dream.

[Prosocorneliay]

He's a union lawyer. You should probably ignore everything he says, actually.