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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Disgraced high school teacher Stephen Stahl is going after his former employer.</p><p>Documents filed Thursday in Luzerne County Court indicate Stahl, a former Coughlin High School <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/4846/suspended-coughlin-dean-stephen-stahl-sentenced-to-6-to-23-months-in-luzerne-county-prison" target="_blank">teacher convicted of having a sexual relationship</a> with a 16-year-old female student, will initiate a civil lawsuit against the Wilkes-Barre Area School District over an alleged contract dispute.</p><p>Information provided on one of the documents indicates Stahl is seeking monetary damages. The document does not provide a dollar amount.</p><p>Additional information indicates the nature of the civil action is an employment conflict, but a brief handwritten explanation was illegible and attempts to clarify the note with Stahl&#8217;s attorney, Elliot B. Edley, were unsuccessful Thursday afternoon.</p><p>Stahl, 49, was granted parole in October and released from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, where the former wrestling coach and dean of students had served just over six months for a corruption of minors conviction.</p><p>Police said Stahl and the victim, then a 10th-grade student, began a sexual relationship that spanned over a year, beginning in March 2004 and ending sometime prior to November 2005, when she told Stahl the relationship had to stop.</p><p>The victim, who came forward nearly 10 years after the relationship occurred, had told police that Stahl asked for her phone number and the two later engaged in sexual intercourse at several locations, including a classroom closet during school hours.</p><p>Stahl was fired by the school district on March 10 and his <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/375179/state-revokes-steven-stahls-teaching-license" target="_blank">education certification was revoked </a>in July.</p><p>Stahl&#8217;s former boss, retired Coughlin principal Frank Michaels, is <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/499248/retired-coughlin-high-school-principal-frank-michaels-heading-to-higher-court-on-perjury-charges" target="_blank">facing perjury charges</a> on allegations he lied to prosecutors when he testified on behalf of Stahl.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Former teacher was convicted of having relationship with 16-year-old student</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Joe Dolinsky</p><p>jdolinsky@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Joe Dolinsky at 570-991-6110 or on Twitter @JoeDolinskyTL</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Former Coughlin High School teacher Stephen Stahl initiates civil action against Wilkes-Barre Area School District