Legal Opinion
Board of Selectmen v. Civil Service Commission
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 24, 1974PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The Civil Service Commission (commission) appeals from a decision of a judge of the Superior Court which, reversing the commission, suspends the intervener, a tenured policeman of the town of Framing-ham, until he conforms to a regulation of the police department concerning the hair styles that police officers in that town are entitled to affect. The Framingham board of selectmen (board), as “appointing authority,” suspended the policeman for violation of the regulation; on review the commission reversed the board; on certiorari the judge of the Superior Court reversed the commission and…
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