Costello v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF CHELSEA

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “removal” or “discharge” from continuing employment is distinct from a failure to rehire an employee who is subject to annual renomination and reappointment
• legislative history of the addition and subtraction of certain terms to G. L. c. 32, § 10, “evinces an awareness that there is a difference between a ‘removal or discharge’ and ‘failure of reappointment’ ”
• “The words ‘removal’ and ‘discharge’ connote the termination of employment of a person who has a continuing right to it, not the failure to rehire someone who has to be renominated and reappointed every year”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).