Legal Opinion
Commissioner of Metropolitan District Commission v. Director of Civil Service
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 7, 1964PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
The commissioner of the Metropolitan District Commission (M.D.C.) seeks declaratory relief against the director of civil service (the director) and O’Handley to determine whether O’Handley must be appointed a patrolman on the Metropolitan District Police. It was alleged (and later agreed) that O’Handley was a .disabled veteran; that on August 7, 1954, he had pleaded guilty to, and been sentenced upon, an indictment for armed robbery; and that on September 12, 1958, he received a full pardon.
The case was heard upon a statement of agreed facts. By final decree it was declared that O’Handley…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Ex Parte GarlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Carlesi v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Burdick v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- In Re LavineCalifornia Supreme Court · 1935
- Commonwealth v. LockwoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Commonwealth v. VickeyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- City of Cambridge v. Civil Service CommissionMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1997
- White v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Chief of Police of Shelburne v. MoyerMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1983
- Solomon J. Upshaw v. Edmund L. McNamara Commissioner of Police for the City of Boston, MassachusettsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1970
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