Short v. Criminal Sheriff's Office

SAMUEL, Judge.

Bobby Short, an employee of Charles C. Foti, Jr., Criminal Sheriff, was suspended from duty as a deputy. He appealed the suspension to the Civil Service Commission of the City of New Orleans. Asserting Short was not a classified employee, the appointing authority filed an exception of no right or cause of action to the appeal. The Commission denied the exception and the appointing authority appealed to this court from that denial.

Ex proprio motu, we issued an order to show cause why the appeal should not be dismissed on the ground that the denial of the peremptory exception was…