Pitassi v. Personnel Hearing Board

Stephen G. Pitassi is seeking a review of his dismissal by the city of East Providence where he worked as a laborer in the city’s Water Department. Pitassi is before us on both an appeal from a judgment entered in the Superior Court denying a complaint that he had filed and common law certiorari. The thrust of the complaint and certiorari is Pitassi’s claim that his firing was unjustified. We have consolidated the appeal and the certiorari proceeding.

Pitassi worked for the city of East Providence from April 4, 1967, until his discharge sometime in March of 1973. He had been notified in…