Martin v. Itasca County

COYNE, Justice.

On the petition of Itasca County we review a decision of the court of appeals reversing summary judgment in its favor. By majority decision, the court of appeals held in an unpublished decision that the county’s personnel policy, which required placement of any county employee on unpaid leave of absence during the employee’s campaign for elective office, did not meet constitutional standards of procedural due process. We reverse and reinstate the judgment of the district court.

In 1981 Arvid Martin was appointed director of the Itasca County Civil Defense Department. As…