McDermott v. Commissioner of Children & Youth Services

This is an appeal by the defendant, commissioner of the department of children and youth services, hereinafter commissioner, from a judgment rendered by the Court of Common Pleas sustaining the plaintiff’s appeal from the commissioner’s action in discharging the plaintiff from her position as a teacher in the service of the state on the grounds of ineompetency and insubordination. It is the claim of the commissioner that the court erred: (1) in concluding that the plaintiff did not receive a fair and impartial hearing; (2) in concluding that there was insufficient evidence to support the…