KELLEHER v. PERSONNEL ADMR. OF DEPT OF PERSONNEL ADMIN


421 Mass. 382 (1995)

KEVIN W. KELLEHER vs. PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 16, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan M. Callahan for the plaintiff.

William Appeal for Personnel Administrator of the Department of Personnel Administration.

John M. Carey (Catherine S. Reidy with him) for the Mayor of Somerville.

Present: WILKINS, LYNCH, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.


FRIED, J.

This case requires us to construe the Commonwealth's civil service law as it defines the level of scrutiny that should be employed by the personnel administrator (administrator) of the Department of Personnel Administration (department) in approving certain provisional promotions. The chief engineer's post in the Somerville fire department having fallen vacant, the mayor of Somerville, the appointing authority here, provisionally promoted Deputy Fire Chief...

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