Court Opinion

ID: 9572767
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:44:26.758806+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:34:09.928082
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Kelly, Justice
(concurring in part, dissenting in part).
While I agree that the board abused its discretion in refusing to admit evidence of the employee’s lack of progress in her retraining program and that this case must therefore be remanded for further proceedings in the board, I think the court’s statement upholding the sufficiency of the evidence and its characterization of such proceedings as a hearing on the “continuation” of the retraining program are improper in view of our holding that there was an abuse of discretion. The new evidence sought to be admitted discloses that in two quarters of college work, employee has failed to receive a single passing grade, amassing three incompletes and five withdrawals from courses. Such evidence, coupled with the evidence before the board of employee's low IQ and emotional problems, raises some doubt as to the propriety of the board’s finding that employee could be success*207fully retrained as a drug counselor. The board ought to be allowed to fully reconsider that finding without intimations from this court as to the overall sufficiency of the evidence in the absence of the new evidence. Furthermore, since the error of the board occurred in its review of the original order for retraining, it is that entire order which must be reconsidered, not merely the propriety of the continuation of the retraining program at this point in time.
Otis, Justice (concurring in part, dissenting in part).
I join in the opinion of Mr. Justice Kelly.