Huckleberries has learned (re: Teacher fights firing for 'swats'/St. Maries Gazette-Record) ... that a Benewah County jury unanimously sided with former Worley-Plummer teacher Bruce Lust and awarded $148,000 to him in back pay in his 2007 wrongful termination case today. Lust had been fired by the district for a demonstration on four random students re: how not to "spank" one another. Brian Julian, of Anderson, Julian & Hull represented the School District and James Piotrowski represented Bruce Lust. My source tells me: "The jury found, in response to the first question, that what Bruce did was not grounds for discharge.   Since Bruce was a teacher with a contract with the School District, firing him without just cause breached his contract. Also, the jury awarded Bruce back pay.  He was fired in 2007, and the $148,000 represents what he would have made had he not been fired (along with some allowance for present value and lost benefits that our economist, Greg Green, presented to the jury). Copy of verdict here.