City of Gloucester v. Civil Service Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reviewing court “need only inquire whether the . . . decision was ‘legally tenable and supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole’ ”
• further noting that, “Substantial evidence is ‘such evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion’”
• “(O)bviously, if the city had ignored competing demands for its funds, it would have had enough money to pay [the plaintiffs salary]”
• a discussion of the standard of proof necessary to sustain the termination of a Civil Service employee
• “We need only inquire whether the commission’s decision was ‘legally tenable and supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole’ ”
• administrative magistrate explicitly concluded that the City did not act in bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).