Storrs v. Municipality of Anchorage

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

This appeal raises the question whether a collective bargaining agreement can alter the constitutional rights of covered employees to provide for post-termination review, rather than pretermination review, of a discharge and, if so, whether a discharged employee is entitled to back pay between his dismissal and eventual post-termination review. The superior court found the officer received all process due and the officer appealed. We affirm.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

John W. Storrs was a career police officer with the Municipality of Anchorage Police Department…