City of Minneapolis ex rel. Johnson v. Singer

PETERSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by the City of Minneapolis, by its chief of police, from an order of the district court affirming an order of the Minneapolis Civil Service Commission. The *151issue is whether the commission had the authority under the city charter to order a 90-day suspension of the employee in question, Officer Ronald J. Bender of the Minneapolis Police Department, rather than discharge him as recommended by the chief of police. We affirm.

By a 2 to 1 vote the commission, after a full hearing, approved the chief of police’s recommendation that Bender be discharged for certain…