Court Opinion

ID: 9536580
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:02:49.465102+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:54:47.710209
License: Public Domain

Gunderson, C. J.,
concurring:
Although I agree the district court should be reversed, I would prefer to ground our opinion merely on a determination that the record before the Advisory Commission justified its decision.
In this case, I see no good reason to reach tire substantially more difficult, technical point my brethren have elected to treat. I tend to think a state agency is as legally “aggrieved” as any employer, if compelled to rehire with unearned back pay an employee it can show is incompetent. I submit that, until the question is presented upon a record that fails to justify a determination of competence, there is no need to say otherwise. So far as I am aware, state agencies have not inundated the courts with proceedings of this type, as my brethren apparently feel is a danger.