Paramount Unified School Dist. v. Teachers Assn. of Paramount

In Paramount Unified School Dist. v. Teachers Assn. of Paramount (1994) 26 Cal. App. 4th 1371, a school district appealed from an order confirming an arbitration award directing the district to pay monetary damages to a former probationary teacher. The district claimed the teacher's failure to comply with the claims requirement of the Tort Claims Act barred the award. The court found to the extent this contention challenged the arbitrator's application of law, it was not reviewable. To the extent it challenged the legality of the monetary award, the court found it was waived for failure to raise it before the arbitrator. ( Paramount, supra, at p. 1386.) The district's contention that the award constituted a gift of public funds was preserved for appeal because it was raised before the arbitrator. ( Id. at p. 1388.)