Legal Opinion
Saunders v. Town of Hull
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 27, 2017No. 17-1174PPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from entry of summary judgment in favor of the Town of Hull in a civil rights action brought by a Hull police officer. Scott Saunders, a decade-long veteran of the Town of Hull Police Department, was passed over for a promotion in November 2014. He alleges that the Town of Hull and its then Police Chief, Richard Billings, intentionally let his application lapse, and did not promote him, in retaliation for exposing Chief Billings’s professional misconduct. In particular, Saunders—the President of the local police union at the time—had reported $130,000 of…
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