Legal Opinion
Cignetti v. Healy
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided March 21, 2000No. CIV. A. 96-11427-MELPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND DECISION
LASKER, District Judge.
Peter Cignetti, a Captain in the Cambridge Fire Department, brings this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, alleging primarily that the City of Cambridge and officials of the City and of the Cambridge Fire Department engaged in a pattern of harassment and coercion in retaliation for his exercise of his First Amendment right as a public employee to speak on matters of public concern. He also asserts violations of the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 12, §§ 11H and 111, and common law claims of abuse of process and libel against certain…
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