PROVENCAL v. POLICE DEPARTMENT OF WORCESTER


423 Mass. 626 (1996)

EDWARD PROVENCAL v. POLICE DEPARTMENT OF WORCESTER & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

September 25, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter B. Clifford for the plaintiff.

Leo T. Sorokin, Assistant Attorney General, for Civil Service Commission.

Steven Mourginis, Assistant City Solicitor, for the Police Department of Worcester.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.


O'CONNOR, J.

This is an appeal from an order entered in the Superior Court affirming a decision of the defendant Civil Service Commission (commission) upholding the Worcester police department's (department) demotion of the plaintiff, Edward Provencal, a qualified disabled veteran, see G. L. c. 31, § 1 (1994 ed.), from sergeant to patrolman. The issue on appeal is whether the sixth paragraph of G. L. c. 31, § 26 (1994 ed.), which provides, "A disabled veteran...

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