Legal Opinion
O'CONNOR v. Police Commissioner of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 13, 1990PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The plaintiff was a police officer on probationary status in the Boston police department (department). He was assigned to the Boston Police Academy to train as a cadet for twenty weeks. The plaintiff was dismissed from the department after the department was notified by the company it had retained to conduct drug screening tests that the plaintiffs urinalysis test had revealed traces of cocaine. The plaintiff denied using cocaine. His request for permission to submit another urine sample was refused. On the day following the dismissal, a captain of the department informed the other cadets…
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