Commissioner of Mental Health & Addiction Services v. Saeedi, 143 Conn. App. 839 (2013)

Citation: Commissioner of Mental Health & Addiction Services v. Saeedi, 143 Conn. App. 839 (2013)
Parent Document: Commissioner of Mental Health & Addiction Services v. Saeedi, 143 Conn. App. 839 (2013)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 2013-07-09
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7915192/commissioner-of-mental-health-a... ↗

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GRUENDEL, J.
The plaintiffs, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (department), the former commissioner of the department, Thomas A. Kirk, Jr., and Connecticut Valley Hospital (hospital) employees Barbara Forgit, Stuart Forman, Luis Perez, Leonard Lev and Helene Vartelas, appeal from the judgment of the trial court dismissing their administrative appeal from a decision of the defendant Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (commission) human rights referee (referee), finding that the plaintiffs violated General Statutes (Rev. to 2007) § 4-61dd1 by retaliating against the other defendant, Mehdi M. Saeedi, on *842account of his whistle-blowing activities. On appeal, the plaintiffs claim that the court erred in concluding that the referee properly determined that (1) the thirty day filing period for filing whistle-blower retaliation complaints was not a jurisdictional limitation, (2) the thirty day filing period for whistle-blower retaliation *843complaints is subject to the continuing comise of conduct doctrine,2 (3) the act of Saeedi’s union having filed grievances on his behalf for three of the adverse personnel actions of which he complained did not render that procedure his exclusive remedy, and (4) the commission had jurisdiction to order professional ethics training for department employees and to order the correction of Saeedi’s personnel evaluation. We affirm in part and reverse in part the judgment of the trial court.

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