Department of Corrections v. Gandy

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Acting Chief Judge.

The Department of Corrections appeals from a Career Service Commission order of February 6, 1979, purporting to grant a “motion to dismiss” by Gandy, a former *1082employee of the Department of Corrections, who appealed from the Department’s action on December 9, 1977, dismissing him. After much discovery and other proceedings spanning 23 months, and in mid-hearing on the merits, the Commission itself raised a question of its own jurisdiction and concluded it had none because Gandy’s dismissal by letter-notice on December 9, 1977, was defective in the form…