Cleveland, Ohio Board of Education, Leave of Absence, Jo Carol LaFleur

This comes from the case Jo Carol LaFleur v. Cleveland Board of Education, et al. This is a civil case in which, Jo Carol LaFleur alleged that the Cleveland Board of Education's maternity leave policy, which required all pregnant teachers to take mandatory unpaid maternity leave five months before the due date of the child, and were allowed to return to the teaching position the year after the child reached three months with a doctor’s certification of the mother’s health, violated her rights to due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. District Court ruled in favor of LaFleur and this case was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Supreme Court. The U.S. District case file includes: the complaint, affidavits, motions, notices, exhibits, and the transcript of proceedings. This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2014 Summer Workshop in Chicago.