State Employee Wins Appeal, Gets Attorney’s Fees 
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Published: April 25, 2011
Tags: Employment, Justice Charles S. Russell, Supreme Court of Virginia
A former state corrections official who won her state grievance after she was involuntarily demoted wins her appeal in the Virginia Supreme Court after the Department of Corrections attempted to comply with the hearing officer’s order of reinstatement by transferring the successful grievant to a newly created position of deputy warden at another institution.
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