Court Opinion

ID: 9864781
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 16:11:18.703205+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:31:47.401041
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Bouck,
specially concurring.
In the affirmance of the district court judgment I concur. I think, however, that the criticism of the Civil Service Commission’s rule 11 is unjust. The rule neither *604directly nor indirectly dispenses with a hearing on the employee’s discharge or on a reduction in his grade or compensation. It' does not concern itself with any penalty. It forbids an appointing officer to suspend for more than one month unless written consent is given by the Commission. It seems clear that the rule was aptly framed to protect, and not to weaken, the security of every police or other civil service employee in his official tenure.