Millsap v. Cedar Rapids 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.

• acceptance of benefits of pay and reinstatement in employment case was not “relinquishment of a known right” made “knowingly and intentionally, with knowledge of the circumstances”
• upholding police officer’s suspension and demotion for off-duty public intoxication
• appellant accepted back pay and reinstatement awarded by commission but challenged demotion on appeal, held: no waiver — “To hold that by going back to work he waived his right to appeal ... is a degree of sophistry in which we refuse to indulge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).