Legal Opinion
Ghosh v. Indiana State Ethics Commission
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided June 30, 2010No. 32S01-0910-CV-504PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOEHM, Justice.
This case addresses the jurisdiction of state agencies and the State Employee Appeals Commission (SEAC) to consider ethics code violations in ruling on terminations of state employees. A 2005 statute gave SEAC jurisdiction to review terminations of state employees by either the employee's agency or the Ethics Commission. We hold that this amendment authorized SEAC to consider ethical violations among other grounds for termination in conducting this review, but did not otherwise affect the general rule that the Ethics Commission has exclusive jurisdiction to interpret the state…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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