Court Opinion

ID: 9463275
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:02:12.90255+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:00.750417
License: Public Domain

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I agree with the majority’s conclusion that a school district may, on pain of nonrenewal of the principal’s employment contract, forbid a high school principal from serving as chief negotiator for a labor organization representing the interests of teachers whom the principal is obligated to evaluate and supervise on behalf of the school board without violating the principal’s first amendment right. What gives me concern here is that appellant Norbeck, for all that appears in the record, did not hear of the school district’s objection on conflict of interest grounds until the nonrenewal of Norbeck’s contract. I am not at all certain that a school district may acquiesce in a principal’s serving as a union negotiator and then fail to renew his contract because of it. However, Norbeck has not precisely raised this issue on appeal and we do not reach it.
Accordingly, I concur in the result.