Lincoln v. Personnel Administrator of the Department of Personnel Administration

The plaintiffs in these consolidated actions are four applicants for State employment who have challenged the personnel administrator’s change in the scoring and weighting of the 1996 fire fighter examination. They brought individual petitions before the Civil Service Commission (commission), which the commission dismissed, holding that the plaintiffs had failed to exhaust their administrative remedies by not first seeking review with the personnel administrator pursuant to G. L. c. 31, § 22. The plaintiffs appealed, and, after consolidation, a judge in the Superior Court remanded these…