JENKINS v. HOUSING COURT DEPT.

No. 20-1124.

16 F.4th 8 (2021)

Hector M. JENKINS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. HOUSING COURT DEPARTMENT, City of Boston Division, a Section of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Defendant, Appellee, Jeffrey Winik, First Justice of The Boston Housing Court; Michael Neville, Chief Housing Specialist of the Boston Housing Court; Paul Burke, Deputy Court Administrator of the Massachusetts Housing Courts; Paula Carey, Chief Justice of The Massachusetts Trial Courts; Harry Spence, Court Administrator of the Massachusetts Trial Courts; Mark Conlon, Human Resources Director of the Massachusetts Trial Courts; Eamonn Gill, Labor Counsel, Human Resources Department of the Massachusetts Trial Courts; Elizabeth Day, Assistant Labor Counsel, HR Department of the Massachusetts Trial Courts; Antoinette Rodney-Celestine, Administrative Attorney, HR Department of Trial Courts; Timothy Sullivan, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Housing Courts; Maura Healey, Attorney General, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 18, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Shapiro for appellant.

Michelle Liszt Sandals , Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, with whom Howard Meshnick , Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office was on brief, for appellee.

Before Lynch, Lipez, and Barron, Circuit Judges.


Hector Jenkins was a Housing Specialist Department officer and mediator in the Boston Housing Court for over twenty-three years before he was fired from his job there in July 2016. He thereafter filed suit against a number of defendants in the District of Massachusetts in which he alleged that his termination violated 42 U...

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