Legal Opinion
Wilkinson v. State Crime Laboratory Commission
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided January 31, 2002No. 2000-410-AppealPublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FLANDERS, Justice.
This is a government-employment dispute involving a whole passel of claims and counterclaims between a classified “full status” state employee and the state governmental entities and individuals that either employed him or supervised his work at the state’s crime laboratory. Both sides have appealed from the Superior Court judgments that disposed of the parties’ respective claims.
To resolve the legal issues presented, we must construe provisions of the Merit System Act (merit system) — specifically G.L. 1956 § 36^4-59 (tenure in state service) and § 36-4-38…
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