KELLY v. CITY OF NEW HAVEN

No. 17331.

881 A.2d 978 (2005)

275 Conn. 580

John KELLY et al. v. CITY OF NEW HAVEN et al. Peter Beckwith v. Melvin Wearing et al. Shawn Burns v. City of New Haven et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided September 27, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Ude, Jr., corporation counsel, with whom, on the brief, were Kathleen M. Foster, assistant corporation counsel, and Jonathan H. Beamon, assistant corporation counsel, for the appellants (defendants).

Kenneth DeLorenzo, Bloomfield, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

SULLIVAN, C.J., and BORDEN, KATZ, PALMER and ZARELLA, Js.


KATZ, J.

The sole issue in this consolidated appeal1 is whether the methodology for promoting police officers currently utilized by the defendants, the city of New Haven (city) and certain city officials; see footnote 1 of this opinion; whereby civil service examination scores are rounded to whole numbers and then treated as score groups, violates the New Haven charter (charter) provisions limiting...

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