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DUPONT v. COMMISSIONERS OF ESSEX COUNTY; DEUTSCH, WILLIAMS, BROOKS, DERENSIS, ET AL., P.C

No. 97-P-1594.

46 Mass. App. Ct. 235 (1999)

JOSEPH L. DUPONT & others v. COMMISSIONERS OF ESSEX COUNTY & another; DEUTSCH, WILLIAMS, BROOKS, DERENSIS, HOLLAND AND DRACHMAN, P.C., third-party defendant.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Essex.

January 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary P. Harrington for the plaintiffs.

Catherine J. Savoie for Deutsch, Williams, Brooks, DeRensis, Holland and Drachman, P.C.

Lawrence J. O'Keefe, for Commissioners of Essex County & another, was present but did not argue.

Present: ARMSTRONG, KAPLAN, & GILLERMAN, JJ.

KAPLAN, J.

In late 1988 the commissioners of Essex County recognized there would be very substantial shortfalls of revenue for fiscal 1990. The county advisory board met several times to consider how to cut the prospective budget to meet the crisis. On April 29, 1989, a budget was voted with heavy reductions of force and with various other economies. Most members of the staff of the county engineering department, including the present plaintiffs, were to be laid off...

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