Labbe v. Pension Commission

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the plaintiff Alan Labbe1 was excused from exhausting the grievance procedures under a collective bargaining agreement before commencing an action in the Superior Court because using the procedures would have been futile. The plaintiff appealed to the Appellate Court from the judgment of the trial court dismissing his claim for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because he had failed to exhaust his contractual remedies. The defendants, the Hartford pension commission and the city of Hartford, cross appealed. We transferred the case to this…