SMITH v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES

No. 82 CA 0848.

432 So.2d 997 (1983)

Valerie SMITH v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, Office of Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

May 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary E. Howell, Howell & Bayer, New Orleans, for appellant.

Philip H. Kennedy, Staff Atty., Dept. of Health & Human Resources, New Orleans, for appellee.

Robert R. Boland, Jr., Civil Service Legal Counsel, Dept. of State Civil Service, Baton Rouge, for Herbert L. Sumrall, Director of the Dept. of State Civil Service.

Before EDWARDS, WATKINS and SHORTESS, JJ.


WATKINS, Judge.

Appellant, a former employee of Charity Hospital, is appealing the dismissal of her appeal before the Civil Service Commission for failure to appear on the date of her hearing.

We remand.

The appellant was a civil service employee of Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans, Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR). On December 14, 1981 Ms. Smith received notice that she was terminated, effective December 15, 1981. The notice...

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