Stetson v. Board of Selectmen of Carlisle

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[t]he plaintiff has no property interest in employment as a police officer by the town” because the applicable state law “permits the town’s selectmen to discharge a police officer at their pleasure”
• indicating board of selectman was responsible for conducting the name-clearing hearing
• judge may consider even faulty affidavits if no motion to strike
• plaintiff alleged the factual basis for his dismissal was false

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).