FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY v. LEWIS

No. X-371.

327 So.2d 862 (1976)

FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY, an Institution Owned and Operated by the State of Florida, Petitioner, v. Althea M. LEWIS et al., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Woods, Woods & Johnston, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Carol L. Reilly, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John E. Crusoe, Tallahassee, for respondents.


MILLS, Judge.

The University seeks review of an order of the Commission which changed the University's dismissal of its employee, Lewis, to a thirty-day suspension and reinstatement with full back pay. The issue before us is whether the Commission may determine that there was just cause for the dismissal of Lewis, but change the dismissal to a suspension.

Lewis was convicted of issuing two bad checks and sentenced to thirty days in the county jail. Because...

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