Legal Opinion
Costello v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF CHELSEA
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 12, 1989No. 88-P-203PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The plaintiff challenges the legality of the defendant school committee’s failure to reappoint him. The case is before us on a statement of agreed facts.
The plaintiff, a fifty-five year old navy veteran, had worked for twenty-four years in various Massachusetts public schools as a teacher, guidance counselor, psychologist, and adminis trator of special education. 2 On September 7, 1982, he had been appointed by the school committee of Chelsea for a one-year term to the position of administrator of special education for the Chelsea school department. On April 7, 1983, and again on April 12,…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Cleveland Board of Education v. LoudermillSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Beeler v. DowneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- School Committee of West Springfield v. KorbutMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- Massachusetts Coalition of Police, Local 165 v. Town of NorthboroughMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Downing v. City of LowellMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2001
- Retirement Board of Attleboro v. School Committee of AttleboroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
- Town of Swansea v. Contributory Retirement Appeal BoardMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1997
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