McNamara v. Director of Civil Service

These are two petitions for writs of certiorari brought respectively by nonveteran lieutenants in the fire department of the city of Boston and by a nonveteran lieutenant in the police department to quash rulings of the respondent director, sustained by the respondent commissioners of the civil service commission, whereby in accordance with paragraph 2 of civil service Rule 21 the director has added or will add “two points to the general average mark obtained by any veteran” at competitive promotional examinations which the petitioners have taken or may hereafter take for the position of…