Lee v. South Dakota Department of Health

SABERS, Justice.

Vince Lee (Lee) appeals the termination of his employment with the South Dakota Department of Health (Department). We affirm.

Facts

Lee was hired by Department as a Community Health Nurse III on November 2, 1981. Lee was a career service employee. He was well aware of Department’s rules concerning the Family Planning Program at the West River Community Health Clinic (Clinic), some of which he drafted himself. On December 23, 1983, Lee was the supervising nurse on duty at Clinic. He dispensed a three month supply of birth control pills to a fifteen-year-old girl (“Tam*110my”). Lee…