LINCOLN v. PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION


432 Mass. 208 (2000)

RICHARD M. LINCOLN & another v. PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION & another (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 1, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane L. Willoughby, Assistant Attorney General, for Personnel Administrator of the Department of Personnel Administration.

Frank J. McGee for the plaintiffs.

Jed M. Nosal, for Boston Fire Department, was present but did not argue.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, & COWIN, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

The plaintiffs in these consolidated actions are four applicants for State employment who have challenged the personnel administrator's change in the scoring and weighting of the 1996 fire fighter examination. They brought individual petitions before the Civil Service Commission (commission), which the commission dismissed, holding that the plaintiffs had failed to exhaust their administrative remedies by not...

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