Legal Opinion

Seeley v. Board of County Commissioners

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided May 14, 1990No. 89SC129PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Vollack

We granted certiorari in this case to review the court of appeals decision in Seeley *698v. Board of County Commissioners, 771 P.2d 21 (Colo.App.1989). The court of appeals held that a policy manual issued by former La Plata County Sheriff Alvin Brown did not preclude the sheriff from exercising his statutory prerogative to terminate the petitioner’s employment. The court of appeals also held that the sheriff was not estopped from denying reinstatement to petitioner by petitioner’s reliance on the policy manual. We affirm.

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The petitioner, Leslie G. Seeley (Seeley), filed a complaint in La Plata…

2Cases cited20 opinions

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3Cited by31 opinions

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