Perryman v. School Committee of Boston

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• indictment of two teachers for welfare fraud constituted “misconduct in office” because lying to, and stealing from, the public violated a teacher’s position of special public trust
• executive session under §23B(3) properly called where in open session of school committee’s meeting, the committee’s attorney advised that plaintiffs would be seeking an injunction against committee within a week based on committee’s action
• “There are certain forms of employment which carry a position of trust so peculiar to the office and so beyond that imposed by all public service that conduct consistent with this special trust is an obligation of the employment”
• \There are certain forms of employment which carry a position of trust so peculiar to the office and so beyond that imposed by all public service that conduct consistent with this special trust is an obligation of the employment\
• specifically mating reference to cases involving police officers, judges, and teachers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).