Proulx v. State Personnel Commission

This is an appeal under RSA ch. 541 from a denial of a hearing to the plaintiffs on the ground that they failed to take their appeal in accordance with the rules of the personnel commission. Unlike Ally v. State Personnel Commission, 114 N.H. 584, 326 A.2d 263 (1974), and Peabody v. State Personnel Commission, 109 N.H. 152, 245 A.2d 77 (1968), we are not dealing with an appeal from a decision where the burden is upon the plaintiff to show the decision “clearly unreasonable or unlawful” in the face of a “prima facie” presumption that it was lawful and reasonable. RSA 541:13. Rather we are…