Antinerella v. Rioux

The plaintiff, deputy sheriff Joseph Antinerella,1 an at-will employee, sued the defendant, Alfred J. Rioux, as an individual and in his capacity as high sheriff of Hartford county, for wrongfully terminating the plaintiff’s employment for the alleged purposes of misappropriating the plaintiff’s business of serving process and furthering the defendant’s own illegal fee splitting enterprise. The principal issue on appeal is whether the trial court properly dismissed the suit on the grounds that the doctrine of sovereign immunity and the immunity provisions of General Statutes § 4-165 shielded…