Shevlin v. Civil Service Commission of Bridgeport

Opinion

LAVINE, J.

This administrative appeal requires us to construe the Bridgeport City Charter (charter) and the rules (rules) of the Bridgeport Civil Service Commission (commission) to identify the date on which eligibility (eligibility date) to take fire captain promotion examination number 2319 (examination 2319) should have been determined. To determine the eligibility date, we must first decide whether the trial court properly found that a certain firefighter was not laid off when he was demoted from the captain to the lieutenant class. We conclude that the court properly found that the…