Beer v. City of Fraser Civil Service Commission

Plaintiff Charles Beer, City Administrator for the City of Fraser, suspended city police Sergeant Norman Spinelli for 30 days and recommended his permanent suspension to the city’s civil service commission. Sergeant Spinelli appealed the administrator’s suspension to defendant commission, which conducted a hearing. On April 15, 1981, the commission reversed Spinelli’s suspension and ordered that he be reinstated.

Charles Beer, as city appointing authority, and the City of Fraser thereafter filed an action for superintending control against the civil service commission, contending that the…