Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Uintah Health Care Special Service District
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 6, 2007No. 06-4187PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
The Administrative Control Board (“Board”) is the final and authoritative policymaking voice of Uintah County, Utah’s Health Care Special Services District (“District”). After the Board fired Ms. Simmons as administrator of the District’s nursing home, she responded with a lawsuit alleging that she failed to receive the process due her under the District’s written termination policies. A bench trial followed. The district court eventually found that the Board had indeed failed to follow the District’s termination procedures in dismissing Ms. Simmons, and it reasoned…
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