Carney v. City of Springfield

How courts have described this case

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• G. L. c. 249, § 4, provides limited judicial review to correct substantial error of law affecting material rights
• “A court will correct only a substantial error of law, evidenced by the record, which adversely affects a material right of the plaintiff’
• “A court will correct only a substantial error of law, evidenced by the record, which adversely affects a material right of the plaintiff’
• police officer ordered to submit to polygraph examination and answer questions about alleged drug activities; officer appeared for questioning but refused to answer the questions posed on grounds of privilege
• \[A certiorari action] lies only where the petitioner has exhausted all administrative remedies\
• “public employees cannot be discharged simply because they invoke their privilege under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution not to incriminate themselves in refusing to respond to questions propounded by their employers”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).