ALABAMA ALCOHOLIC BEV. CONTROL BD. v. Tyson

This is an employee termination case.

The employee, Fredrick H. Tyson, was terminated from his employment as a Cashier I by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (ABC Board) on August 30, 1985.

The reasons given by the ABC Board for the employee's dismissal were that he had delivered a certain quantity of whiskey to a customer without entering it as a sale on the cash register and he had allowed unauthorized personnel to be in the State store's warehouse area.

The termination was appealed by the employee to the State Personnel Board (Personnel). Personnel appointed a hearing officer to…