Berchem, Moses & Devlin, P.C. v. Town of East Haven

Opinion

PETERS, J.

In Gesmonde, Pietrosimone, Sgrignari, Pinkus & Sachs v. Waterbury, 231 Conn. 745, 750-51, 651 A.2d 1273 (1995), our Supreme Court held that, under appropriate circumstances, a conflict of interest between a municipal commission and the municipality’s corporation counsel, who ordinarily would represent the commission, empowers the commission to hire outside counsel for the purpose of representing its interests. The principal issue in this appeal is whether the trial court properly applied Gesmonde in holding that the East Haven board of police commissioners had the authority…