Superintendent Lawsuit Hearings Complete Testimony

Judge's decision could come by summer, but the embattled schools chief says he expects the issue to continue for a long time.

Months after it quietly began last September, the hearing to decide the validity of Parsippany's Superintendent of Schools LeRoy Seitz's contract with the school district is finally over. On Tuesday, in the final day of the oft-delayed hearing at the Office of Administrative Law in Newark, dramatic testimony was offered that, if found credible by the judge, could swing the case in Seitz's favor. Then again, it may not. "It's a very complicated case," the superintendent told Patch. Seitz took legal action against the BOE, the state Department of Education and former County Executive Superintendent Kathleen Serafino over the board's rescinding of a five-year contract struck in November 2010. Under the pact, which Seitz said was approved by …

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