GAUTHIER v. POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON


408 Mass. 335 (1990)

557 N.E.2d 1374

JOSEPH GAUTHIER vs. POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Powers (Shirley M. Foley with him) for the plaintiff.

Kevin S. McDermott, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel (Zara Kilmurray with him) for the defendants.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


O'CONNOR, J.

As in the case of O'Connor v. Police Comm'r of Boston, ante 324 (1990), the plaintiff in this case was a cadet at the Boston Police Academy (academy) who was discharged after the Boston police department (department) received notice that the monitored urinalysis test to which he and all other cadets had been required to submit had revealed traces of cocaine. The plaintiff then brought this action alleging in a verified complaint that the...

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