Alabama State Personnel Board v. Hardy

The circuit court, in an order set out in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, Alabama State Personnel Board v. Hardy, 27 So.3d 540, 546-47 (Ala.Civ.App.2008),1 gave a seemingly compelling explanation as to why each of the substantive grounds on which the administrative law judge based her recommendation to the State Personnel Board, in turn adopted by the State Personnel Board, to uphold the termination of Michael Hardy’s employment with the Department of Youth Services was not supported by the evidence and/or the factual findings made by the administrative law judge herself. In this…