DeNigris v. City of Fort Lauderdale

STONE, Judge.

Appellant, a police officer, appeals from the trial court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of mandamus following a hearing on the petition.

On September 7,1984, the officer appealed to the City’s civil service board regarding a July 1st transfer from one patrol district to another. The board denied relief without affording the appellant a hearing on the merits of his claim, concluding that the City’s rules governing appeals to the board did not provide for appeals from this type of transfer. Although the notice of the denial of a hearing was issued on October 16, 1984,…