City of Boston v. Boston Police Patrolmen's Ass'n, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police commissioner had sole authority to determine whether officer should be reissued service weapon
• a ‘compendium of legislation’ regulating who shall carry a firearm and under what conditions ‘demonstrates a clear policy statement by’ the Legislature that ‘the carrying of firearms is to be controlled by specified officials’
• sole authority to determine whether officer should be reissued service weapon
• police commissioner could not bargain away authority to control weapons
• appointed police commissioner possesses nondelegable managerial authority
• reissuance of officer’s service revolver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).