Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 16-24-8 (2026)
Cancellation of Contracts - Grounds.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Repealed by Act 2011-270, p. 494, §14, effective July 1, 2011.
(Acts 1939, No. 499, p. 759, 6; Code 1940, T. 52, §358; Acts 1953, No. 773, p. 1040, §1; Act 2000-733, p. 1588, §9.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 41
cases, 1979–2015 · leading case: Ex Parte Wilson, 984 So. 2d 1161 (Ala. 2007).
Ex Parte Wilson, 984 So. 2d 1161 (Ala. 2007). “" See § 16-24-8, Ala.Code 1975. In support of those allegations, the superintendent set forth 14 separate charges that formed the bases of his recommendation to cancel Wilson's teaching contract.”
Franks v. Hampton, 189 So. 3d 14 (Ala. 2015). “On May 27, 2009, the superintendent notified Franks, in writing, of her intention to recommend that the Board members cancel the contract because of a “justifiable decrease in jobs in the system” as provided for in' Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-8 (now repealed). 1 Franks’s notice…”
Madison Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. Wilson, 984 So. 2d 1153 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006). “" See § 16-24-8, Ala.Code 1975 (providing for the cancellation of a tenured teacher's employment contract for those and other reasons).”
Ex Parte Athens State Coll., 795 So. 2d 709 (Ala. 2000). “Code 1975 (the Fair Dismissal Act), in pari materia with § 16-24-8 (the Teacher Tenure Act), upheld the panel's decision requiring Athens State to place Ruth in another nonteacher position for which she was "qualified.”
Montgomery Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. Webb, 53 So. 3d 121 (Ala. 2009). “” § 16-24-8. Section 16-24-9 establishes the procedure for cancellation of an employment contract for one of the reasons in § 16-24-8.”
Athens State Coll. v. Ruth, 795 So. 2d 703 (Ala. Civ. App. 1999). “The Teacher Tenure Act contains § 16-24-8, which, like § 36-26-102 (a part of the Fair Dismissal Act), prohibits the termination of tenured persons, except under limited circumstances.”
Wilson v. Madison Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 984 So. 2d 1161 (Ala. 2007). “” See § 16-24-8, Ala.Code 1975. In support of those allegations, the superintendent set forth 14 separate charges that formed the bases of his recommendation to cancel Wilson’s teaching contract.”
State Tenure Comm'n v. Page, 777 So. 2d 126 (Ala. Civ. App. 2000). “See Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-8. The Commission apparently found insufficient evidence for it to hold that the Board had acted improperly on either of these grounds.”
Ex Parte Alabama State Tenure Com'n, 595 So. 2d 479 (Ala. 1991). “The Commission appealed, and the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the circuit court's judgment, finding that the grounds stated in the Board's letter clearly fell within the perimeters of Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-8, which sets out the grounds justifying cancellation of a tenured…”
Bd. of Sch. Com'rs of Mobile Cty. v. Dunn, 962 So. 2d 805 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006). “On December 21, 2004, Harold Dodge, the superintendent of the Mobile County Public School System, recommended to the Board that it terminate, pursuant to § 16-24-8, Ala.Code 1975, the employment of Dunn, a science teacher and the head varsity basketball coach at B.”
Kilgore v. Jasper City Bd. of Educ., 624 So. 2d 603 (Ala. Civ. App. 1993). “Such situations may occur whenever a teacher is subject to dismissal under the terms of Ala.Code 1975, § 16-24-8; however, such situations also may be the result of coercion or other unfair practices, leaving a teacher with the "choice" of accepting a non-tenured position or…”
Bd. of Sch. Commissioners v. Weaver, 99 So. 3d 1210 (Ala. 2012). “’ “The Superintendent’s May 9, 2008, letter continued that, according to Section 16-24-8, [Ala.Code 1975,] additional cancellation reasons were: “‘Justifiable decrease in the number of assistant principal positions pursuant to implementation of budgetary cuts.”
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