State Board of Adjustment v. State Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation

RUSSELL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a circuit court judgment ruling that the State Board of Adjustment (Board) acted in excess of its jurisdiction in granting an award to Emmett O. Dale (Dale) and ordering the Board to vacate and set aside its award. The Board and Dale appeal. We affirm.

The dispositive issue is whether the Board had jurisdiction over Dale’s claim.

The pertinent facts are that Douglas Edward Griffin was treated and released from Bryce Hospital, a residential mental illness treatment facility maintained by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation…