Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 309941.cor.pdf

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Brownfield would not attend, Yakima City Manager Dick Zais wrote a letter to Jeff

Brownfield, which concluded:

Mr. Brownfield, you have been previously ordered to submit to Dr.
Ekemo's evaluation and cooperate with the evaluation process. The
purpose of this letter is to re-iterate that order. You are hereby ordered to
appear on March 6, 2007, for the continuation of Dr. Ekemo's fitness
for duty evaluation and cooperate fully with the evaluation process. If
you fail to follow this order, you will be considered insubordinate and
the likely penalty of insubordination is termination of employment.
Moreover, if you fail to complete the examination process with Dr. Ekemo,
the City will make a determination regarding your fitness for duty based on
the medical information to date.

CP at 151.

When Jeff Brownfield failed to show for the second day of his examination by

William Ekemo, city of Yakima reinitiated termination of employment proceedings. On

March 19, Brownfield participated in a pretermination hearing with City Manager Dick

Zais. Following this meeting, Zais fired Brownfield for insubordination. City of

Yakima's termination letter identified established policies and procedures that

Brownfield violated by refusing to complete the duty evaluation. Brownfield violated the

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Brownfield v. City ofYakima

city of Yakima Police Department Policies and Procedures, the union's Collective

Bargaining Agreement, and the Police Service Commission Rules and Regulations.

On January 8, 2008, Jeff Brownfield filed suit against the city of Yakima in United

States District Court, for the Eastern District of Washington. See Brownfield v. City of