Cocchini v. City of Providence

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

The principal participants in this Superior Court litigation are the Acting Personnel Director of the City of Providence, John D. Mancone (Mancone), 1 and the four plaintiffs, Marianne Cocchini, Diane Fitzgerald, Marlene Weir, and Robert Rizzo.

On June 29, 1981, all four plaintiffs were serving in supervisory capacities in the city’s Public Parks Department (parks department) when they were notified in writing by Mancone that they were being laid off as of the next day. The plaintiffs have maintained that their layoffs are illegal because the provisions of G.L.1956…