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SPRINGFIELD v. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

403 Mass. 612 (1988)

532 N.E.2d 636

CITY OF SPRINGFIELD vs. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

December 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Smith for John Lynch.

Suzanne E. Durrell, Assistant Attorney General, for Civil Service Commission.

Richard T. Egan, City Solicitor, for the city of Springfield.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

NOLAN, J.

The Springfield board of police commissioners twice suspended and then dismissed Officer John Lynch in 1984 for his refusal to answer questions about alleged drug use within the police department without an express grant of immunity from criminal prosecution. Lynch appealed his dismissal to the Civil Service Commission (commission), which ordered the city to reinstate him. The city appealed the commission's decision...

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