STATE, DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Higgs

STEWART, Justice:

The State of Utah, on behalf of the Department of Social Sendees, filed a complaint in the district court June 7, 1980, seeking judicial review of an administrative order sustaining in part employee grievances filed by the defendants against the Department. On July 22, 1980, the district court dismissed the complaint because the State had failed to exhaust its administrative remedies. The State appeals that order, contending that the trial court erred in not applying the procedural provisions of the statute in effect at the time defendants first initiated their grievance…