Kendall v. Malcolm

BERNSTEIN

(dissenting).

The majority is destroying an important protection for city employees provided for by the City of Scottsdale civil service system. Civil service was fathered by President Grover Cleveland to do away with the spoils system of employment and discharge *335of public employees. Its purposes have been well put by the Court of Appeals of New York:

“The civil service provisions of the Constitution and of the law were intended as a protection for the public and all the employees in the civil service as well as security for the individual employee.” (Emphasis supplied). Wood v. City…