Moss v. Central State Hospital

Clarke, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to decide whether a government employee faced with discharge for refusing to submit to a polygraph test must exhaust all administrative remedies before seeking a declaratory judgment as to the legality of the requirement that she submit to the test.

This case arose out of an accusation by a patient at Central State Hospital that a hospital employee had engaged in sexual relations with her. One of the appellants made the statement that the patient had admitted in the presence of the appellants that she had lied. As part of an internal…