Public employee, reasonable suspicion, random testing, drugs, due process, cocaine, evidence.

Daryl George, a former fire department employee with the City of New Orleans, appeals a civil service commission's decision to terminate his employment. George tested positive for cocaine in a drug test ordered under reasonable suspicion. City officials suspended George and later dismissed him. George appealed the decision to the city's civil service commission.

The city commission upheld the decision to terminate George's employment. Claiming the city's policy violated existing state statute and that he had been denied due process, George now appeals.

George loses. The Louisiana Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, affirmed the decision of the lower jurisdiction. The appeals court ruled that George's arguments concerning the inadmissibility of evidence were invalid, as were his claims of an illegal search.