Police Commissioner v. Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District

This petition for a writ of certiorari, filed in the county court, sought to quash an order of a judge of the Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District issued following review of an action of the Civil Service Commission (commission).1 The commission, after hearing, had affirmed the action of the appointing authority, the police commissioner of the city of Boston (police commissioner) in discharging Alfred Ciovacco, a police officer. The Municipal Court judge ordered that Ciovacco be reinstated with back pay on the ground that the commission “having adjudicated this matter through the use…