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''The Laredo Morning Times'' questioned Maldonado's politicking in trustee elections; its education reporter, Judith Rayo, suggested that he could have been "walking on thin ice" legally in support of the three favored candidates, noting that in 1992 the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in [[New Orleans]] upheld the firing of a school superintendent for similar "electioneering".<ref name=terminationquestioned>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_01df3bdb-2b8d-5185-ba11-a95382c0d4fd.html|title=Cause for termination? Maldonado's job at risk for supporting candidates|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times'' |author=Judith Rayo|date=November 2, 2014|page=1|accessdate=September 9, 2015}}</ref>​

''The Laredo Morning Times'' questioned Maldonado's politicking in trustee elections; its education reporter, Judith Rayo, suggested that he could have been "walking on thin ice" legally in support of the three favored candidates, noting that in 1992 the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in [[New Orleans]] upheld the firing of a school superintendent for similar "electioneering".<ref name=terminationquestioned>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_01df3bdb-2b8d-5185-ba11-a95382c0d4fd.html|title=Cause for termination? Maldonado's job at risk for supporting candidates|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times'' |author=Judith Rayo|date=November 2, 2014|page=1|accessdate=September 9, 2015}}</ref>​

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​[[File:Juan Maldonado and Jesse Porres.jpg|thumb|325px|right|President Juan L. Maldonado (left) converses on September 15, 2010, with Jesse Poras, then the incoming LCC trustee, at the groundbreaking of the Rodney Ray Lewis Education and Academic Center. Four years later, Maldonado campaigned successfully to defeat Porras in the trustee elections. Maldonado announced his own retirement several months thereafter.]]​

After the November elections, the board in 2014 elected three new officers, with Hilario Cavazos as the temporary board president to succeed Cynthia Mares (formerly Cynthia Jackson), but Cavazos' defeat at the polls a few weeks later in the runoff contest removed him from the ranks of the trustees. During his short tenure as board president, Cavazos was served a temporary restraining order initiated by fellow trustee [[Mercurio Martinez]], a former county judge for Webb County, to block the board from reviewing the employment contracts of two employees accused of engaging in sexual relations on campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_f4003f57-470b-59f9-87bf-7aea5be2e619.html|author=Judith Rayo and Philip Balli|title=Trustee vs. trustee: Temporary restraining order filed in personnel matter|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times'' |date=December 14, 2014|pages=1, 19A|accessdate=September 14, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_d2c234b6-469e-50ac-8b29-cb4464cfd412.html|title=Board takes no action: Contract evaluation postponed for now|work=Laredo Morning Times|date=December 23, 2014|author=Judith Rayo|page=1|accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref> Hilario Cavazos accused President Maldonado of "covering up a scandal, and he didn't do anything about it. I owed it to the public to try to correct this."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_b40bf44e-117c-5a2a-a5cd-7f1236db16b3.html|title=Board defers review again: Maldonado's evaluation date uncertain|author=Kendra Ablaza|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|date=December 28, 2014|pages=1, 4A|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_7392ba6e-6c81-5020-990b-a3eefbbabb97.html|title=Trustee's Temporary Restraining Order amended: Maldonado's evaluation meeting to proceed|author=Judith Rayo|date=December 22, 2015|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|page=1|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref> In April 2015, Maldonado banned Cavazos from being on the LCC campus for fourteen days because of what Maldonado termed the former trustee's disruptive behavior at a public meeting on January 22.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/news/local/article_7c17f356-ea8d-11e4-baef-277d07f85906.html|title=Cavazos banned for 14 days|author=Judith Rayo|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|date=April 24, 2015|pages=1, 11A|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref>​

After the November elections, the board in 2014 elected three new officers, with Hilario Cavazos as the temporary board president to succeed Cynthia Mares (formerly Cynthia Jackson), but Cavazos' defeat at the polls a few weeks later in the runoff contest removed him from the ranks of the trustees. During his short tenure as board president, Cavazos was served a temporary restraining order initiated by fellow trustee [[Mercurio Martinez]], a former county judge for Webb County, to block the board from reviewing the employment contracts of two employees accused of engaging in sexual relations on campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_f4003f57-470b-59f9-87bf-7aea5be2e619.html|author=Judith Rayo and Philip Balli|title=Trustee vs. trustee: Temporary restraining order filed in personnel matter|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times'' |date=December 14, 2014|pages=1, 19A|accessdate=September 14, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_d2c234b6-469e-50ac-8b29-cb4464cfd412.html|title=Board takes no action: Contract evaluation postponed for now|work=Laredo Morning Times|date=December 23, 2014|author=Judith Rayo|page=1|accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref> Hilario Cavazos accused President Maldonado of "covering up a scandal, and he didn't do anything about it. I owed it to the public to try to correct this."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_b40bf44e-117c-5a2a-a5cd-7f1236db16b3.html|title=Board defers review again: Maldonado's evaluation date uncertain|author=Kendra Ablaza|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|date=December 28, 2014|pages=1, 4A|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_7392ba6e-6c81-5020-990b-a3eefbbabb97.html|title=Trustee's Temporary Restraining Order amended: Maldonado's evaluation meeting to proceed|author=Judith Rayo|date=December 22, 2015|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|page=1|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref> In April 2015, Maldonado banned Cavazos from being on the LCC campus for fourteen days because of what Maldonado termed the former trustee's disruptive behavior at a public meeting on January 22.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/news/local/article_7c17f356-ea8d-11e4-baef-277d07f85906.html|title=Cavazos banned for 14 days|author=Judith Rayo|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|date=April 24, 2015|pages=1, 11A|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref>​

===Nora Stewart case===

===Nora Stewart case===