Legal Opinion
State Department of Children, Youth & Families v. Rhode Island Council 94
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 12, 1998No. 96-77-AppealPublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FLANDERS, Justice.
Did an arbitrator exceed his powers when he determined that a department of state government lacked just cause to fire a state employee after the employee was convicted of committing certain violent crimes— despite the fact that the employee’s job responsibilities gave him unsupervised control over and contact with training-school children in the state’s custody? For the reasons spelled out below, we answer this question in the affirmative.
The plaintiff, the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF or the department), appeals from a Superior Court judgment…
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