. .the type of secret activities the Open Meeting Law seeks
to prevent. . ." and suggested that if the panel had considered
any area to be extremely sensitive, it could have gone into
executive session. Even this he qualified--asserting that
it was subject to the plaintiff's right to a public hearing.
As to the public record law, charge number five, he ruled that
the plaintiff should have access to the evaluations requested.
"The Court finds," he wrote, "that Belmont must comply with
the Public Records Law."
Finally, on charge number six, relating to the fair employment law,
the judge found the evidence submitted to be sufficient to indicate
retaliatory, sexual discrimination.
A few days later, with this Opinion and Order from the court in hand,
John T. Pope, president of Belmont University, terminated the plaintiff,
effective immediately.
The Pope's action was expected by everyone except Al Garret,
Diana's attorney--he still thought he'd won the case.
Belmont had been thumbing its nose at the judicial system
as long as anyone could remember.
Diana Trenchant packed up the teaching and research accumulations
of nearly twenty-five years and left for home.
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