Commissioner of the Metropolitan District Commission v. Civil Service Commission

In this action in the nature of certiorari (G. L. c. 249, § 4), the plaintiff, Commissioner of the Metropolitan *574District Commission (MDC), sought to reverse an April, 1982, decision of the Civil Service Commission (commission) which ordered the MDC to reinstate Alexander Vafides to his former position as tunnel inspector. The commission found that Va-fides’s employment had been wrongfully terminated. The MDC claims that the commission lacked jurisdiction to reinstate Va-fides because he had retired from his position upon learning that he had been terminated. A judge of the Superior Court…