The Beaumont Independent School District is seeking more than $1 million in damages from a fired auditor. The district filed suit against Gayle Botley on July 15 in Jefferson County District Court. According to the lawsuit, BISD contracted with Botley to perform professional auditing services, including fiscal reviews from 2011 to 2013, as well as the audit for the district’s 2007 bond program.
A Beaumont electrician alleges several entities – including the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Beaumont Independent School District, The Beaumont Enterprise and Beaumont attorney Wayne Reaud – committed acts that cost him a business contract with BISD and has filed a $22 million federal lawsuit. In court papers filed July 16 in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas, Calvin Gary Walker, the proprietor of Walker’s Electric, explains that the defendants worke
By DAVID YATES BISDlogoAn appeals court has agreed to hear a whistleblower lawsuit against the Beaumont Independent School District, which seeks immunity from the claim. Plaintiff George W.
HOUSTON -- A woman brought a lawsuit against a public school jurisdiction alleging violation of the ADEA and the 1964 Civil Rights Act in a 2014 work matter.
The Beaumont Independent School District had a suit alleging its insurance company refused to reimburse the district for losses allegedly sustained from an employee theft transferred to federal court.
Beaumont locals Nathan and Tracy Delameter are seeking the depositions of any Beaumont Independent School District employees with knowledge of their 3-year-old son’s death.
A Jefferson County school district is suing over claims its insurance company refused to reimburse the district for losses allegedly sustained from an employee theft.
The Beaumont Independent School District recently settled a lawsuit brought by a school district employee claiming a conspiracy trying to get rid of him following his participation in a reporter’s investigation.
Two employees entrusted with managing the finances of the Beaumont Independent School District have been indicted on federal charges for allegedly embezzling $4 million from the district.
Three former Beaumont Independent School District employees have been indicted for embezzling money from a program receiving federal funds in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
GALVESTON - The Brazosport Independent School District faces a lawsuit from a former administrator who alleges he was passed over on a promotion because of his race and gender.
The Ninth Court of Appeals will not impede a local judge’s decision to cancel the Beaumont Independent School District’s board elections, which were set to take place on Nov. 5.
With the Ninth Court of Appeals finding that a Beaumont judge abused his discretion by sanctioning an election in violation of Texas state law, the Beaumont Independent School District is now asking the judge to cancel the upcoming Nov. 5 election.
Plaintiffs seeking to stop the Beaumont Independent School District from holding board elections on Nov. 5 have appealed a ruling allowing the elections to press forward.
On the 12th anniversary of Sept. 11, political hyperbole saturated a Wednesday morning hearing, as attorneys for Beaumont Independent School District, and the respective board candidates suing it, likened one another’s’ election maneuvers to communist regimes.