Legal Opinion
Kaczorowski v. Town of North Smithfield
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided October 1, 2013No. C.A. No. 12-327-MPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JOHN J. McCONNELL, JR., District Judge.
This case presents the question of whether a town council can eliminate a Charter-mandated department director position. The answer to that question in this case is that it cannot.
Plaintiff Philip Kaczorowski filed this case against Defendants the Town of North Smithfield, Town Administrator Robert Lowe, and Town Council Members Linda Thibault, Edward Yazbak, and Paul Zwolenski in their individual and official capacities stemming from the Town Council’s approval of a budget that eliminated the position he held as Director of the…
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