Garcia v. City of Hartford

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[t]he meaning ascribed to the term employee under labor law is consistent with its common meaning”
• ‘‘[w]e ordinarily look to the dictionary definition of a word to ascertain its commonly approved usage’’
• ‘‘[T]he adjectives that precede the term employee in . . . the agreement—‘fulltime, permanent’ and ‘probationary’—indicate current employment status. A retiree undoubtedly would not have either a full-time, permanent or a probationary status.’’ (Emphasis in original.)
• failure to exhaust administrative remedies implicates trial court’s subject matter jurisdiction
• declining to address claim not raised before trial court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).