Ex parte Alabama State Tenure Commission

In Ex parte Alabama State Tenure Commission, 595 So. 2d 479 (Ala. 1991), a teacher, Jones, became ineligible to teach driver's education because his driver's license had been suspended and his automobile insurance was canceled. After Jones was terminated, based on his inability to perform his primary teaching assignment, he appealed to the Alabama State Tenure Commission. The Commission reversed the board's termination, finding that Jones's termination was arbitrarily unjust because, it found, the board had hired nontenured teachers to teach subjects for which Jones was certified to teach. The Court upheld the Tenure Commission's finding and held that the board had to show that there were no nontenured teachers hired to teach in the same fields that the discharged tenured teacher was qualified to teach in. 595 So. 2d at 482.