Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama December 13, 1996, 2950650 (State Personnel Board v. State Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation)

CRAWLEY, Judge.

James Hurst was employed by the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (“the Department”) as a mental health worker at Bryce Hospital for 14 years. In April 1994, the Department dismissed him from his employment, based upon charges that he had sold marijuana to a patient and that he had refused to provide a urine sample for a drug test.