Court Backs Fired Teacher Who Gave Out X-Rated Comic
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — A teacher who was fired after handing out X-rated comics to her class will get more than $120,000 and can apply for a job in the school district, officials said today.
Teresa DeVito was fired in June, 1979, from her job as an art teacher at Rivesville High School after she gave an eighth-grade class comic books containing the X-rated adventures of “Fritz the Cat.”
DeVito appealed, saying she had thought the comics were about the more wholesome cartoon character “Felix the Cat.” The state Supreme Court eventually ruled that her dismissal was wrong.
The school board had argued that she did it deliberately because she was angry at being denied a transfer to another school.
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