Robinson v. Human Relations Commission

I respectfully dissent. This case should be affirmed.

A public hearing panel for the Sioux Falls Human Relations Commission conducted a hearing on Brenda Pfister’s complaint for alleged sexual harassment (supposedly in November and December 1984). Although a transcript of this hearing is not a part of the record, Pfister does not dispute Robinson’s statement that the hearing panel allowed testimony about Pfister’s monetary damages over Robinson’s objections.1 In the course of this hearing, Robinson applied to the circuit court for an alternative writ of prohibition to arrest the *867proceedings.…