Legal Opinion
Lynch v. City of Boston
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 16, 1999No. 98-1076, 98-1112PublishedCited by 223 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Helen Lynch brought this action in the district court against the City of Boston and, inter alia, Kelley Cronin, a City employee. Lynch alleged that Cronin told her to “clear out your desk” and removed Lynch from her volunteer position on the Mayor’s Hunger Commission in retaliation for a phone call Lynch made to the May- or’s office during which Lynch complained that the City’s Emergency Shelter Commission (“ESC”), of which Cronin served as the Executive Director, was understaffed at a time when homeless persons in the City were in need of services.…
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