Police Commissioner v. Personnel Administrator

In this case, the Appeals Court vacated the allowance of summary judgment for the plaintiff, the police commissioner of Boston (commissioner). Police Commn’r of Boston v. Personnel Adm’r of the Dep’t of Personnel Admin., 39 Mass. App. Ct. 360, 364 (1995). The Superior Court judge who granted the commissioner’s motion for summary judgment had concluded that the defendant personnel administrator of the department of personnel administration (administrator) should not have set aside the commissioner’s termination of the defendant Medaline Figueroa, a Boston police officer, for unauthorized…