Johnson v. Civil Service Board

Petitioner appeals from the circuit court’s judgment in a writ of review proceeding, that affirmed the decision of the City of Portland Civil Service Board (CSB) sustaining the City’s demotion of petitioner from Rose Curator to gardener. Petitioner asserts, as he did in the circuit court, that the CSB’s determination was unsupported by substantial evidence, ORS 34.040(l)(c), that the CSB failed to apply applicable procedures, ORS 34.040(l)(b), and that the CSB misconstrued the applicable law, ORS 34.040(l)(d). We conclude that one of the two determinations of misconduct that underlays…