Legal Opinion
Eshelman v. Blubaum
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided February 24, 1977No. 1 CA-CIV 3037PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WREN, Judge.
This appeal concerns the question of whether a police officer may be ordered to submit to a polygraph examination upon penalty of dismissal.
The appellant, Mark Eshelman, was dismissed from his position as a deputy in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on August 12, 1974 for Wilful Disobedience of an Order (Maricopa Co. Merit System Rule § 17(c)(14)) and Insubordination (Maricopa Co. Sheriff’s Department Administrative Manual § 5.37(c)(4)). The act leading to dismissal was his refusal to submit to a polygraph examination. He thereafter sought review of the dismissal by the…
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