Hardaway v. Civil Service Commission

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Illinois (Sangamon County) brought pursuant to the Administrative Review Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 110, par. 264 et seq.). The trial court had affirmed the discharge of plaintiff Olamae Hardaway, by defendant Civil Service Commission, from her position as mental health supervisor at the Kankakee State Hospital.

Plaintiff contends that her right to a timely hearing was violated, that the grounds for her dismissal were insufficient, and that the Commission erroneously admitted evidence of a prior rule infraction.

On…