Shouldn’t there be a minimum amount that justifies an administrative procedure? Should society take responsibility for fratricidal disputes that have no relevance to society as a whole? The questions are not idle: the dispute that we are discussing today concerned the location of a public office – in the case: an Interior Mayor’s Office (we forget the name, although we are not lacking in desire) – in which a cup of coffee should be placed next to it. distribution service (sic!). Not only that: the dispute lasted for more than 5 years!
A Notary Public took a bag of soluble coffee – located in the office of the Administrative Secretariat – in order to take it to the office of the Legal Counsel, adjacent to the first one. When she did so, an official, a witness to the episode, told the Notary that she should leave the ball in its place; the Notary did so. Except a short time later the ball disappeared. The official reported the theft of the coffee ball, an administrative investigation was opened – without leading to the opening of a summary -, and the procedure ended with a resolution from the Mayor that held the Notary responsible for all the coffee shortages in the office (since times past) and a 7-day suspension without pay. The Notary Public alleged the absence of evidence of the reported facts and challenged the decision,
The Court was categorical and…
