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· 7/8/2008

Glass v. City of Atlanta

Citations

  • 666 S.E.2d 406
  • 293 Ga. App. 11
  • 2008 Fulton County D. Rep. 2409
  • 2008 Ga. App. LEXIS 818

How courts have described this case

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  • civil service board authorized to discount petitioner’s evidence, to find the evidence against him more credible, and to affirm his termination
  • civil service board authorized to discount petitioner’s evidence, to find the evidence against him more credible, and to affirm his employment termination
  • even the presence of conflicting evidence and evidence which barely meets the any evidence standard is sufficient to support an ALJ’s determination
  • “[I]n its ordinary signification ‘shall’ is a word of command, and the context ought to be very strongly persuasive before that word is softened into a mere permission.”
  • “[I]n its ordinary signification ‘shall’ is a word of command, and the context ought to be very strongly persuasive before that word is softened into a mere permission.”
  • municipal ordinance provides that formal rules of evidence not to be strictly applied

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Judges: Blackburn, Miller, Ellington

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