BANKS v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY & CORR.

No. CA 91 0136.

598 So.2d 515 (1992)

Simmie BANKS, Jr. v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS, LOUISIANA TRAINING INSTITUTE—EAST BATON ROUGE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

April 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Falcon, Avant and Falcon, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Victoria F. Suplee, Staff Atty., Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections, Office of the Gen. Counsel, Baton Rouge, for appellee.

Robert R. Boland, Jr., Civil Service Gen. Counsel, Dept. of State Civ. Service, Baton Rouge, for Herbert L. Sumrall, Director, Department of State Civil Service.

Before LOTTINGER, EDWARDS and GONZALES, JJ.


GONZALES, Judge.

This appeal from a decision of the Civil Service Commission involves whether defendant, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections ("Department"), can discharge an employee for failure to submit to a drug test. The Civil Service Commission ("Commission") denied plaintiff's appeal of his termination. Plaintiff now appeals to this court and makes the following assignments of error:

1) The Commission erred in finding "cause" sufficient...

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