Pittman v. City of Tulsa ex rel. LaFortune

BRIGHTMIRE, Judge.

Appellee Pittman, a civil servant of appellant city of Tulsa, was fired by the presiding judge of the municipal court. He appealed to the civil service commission, and, after a hearing, it revoked the discharge and ordered the employee suspended from performing his municipal duties for six months without pay. Pittman appealed again — this time to the district court. After reviewing the record, the judge reversed the commission’s decision without remanding the matter back to that body for a new hearing.1 City assails this judgment as be*341ing an exercise of power that the court…