Hartford v. Hartford Police Union
Case Details
- Judge(s)
- Cradle; Clark; Norcott
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- Published
- Procedural Posture — the stage the case had reached
- appeal
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Outcome
The court answered a certified question regarding the admissibility of a pre-Miranda statement and remanded for further proceedings consistent with that ruling, holding that a statement taken without advising the defendant of his right to appointed counsel is inadmissible in a trial commenced after Miranda became effective.
Excerpt
The plaintiff city sought to vacate an arbitration award issued in connection with its alleged breach of a collective bargaining agreement that it had entered into with the defendant police union. Between March, 2017, and June, 2018, all five of the city's police captains retired and their positions remained vacant until September, 2018, when they were filled simultane- ously. The union filed a grievance, alleging that the city had violated the terms of certain appendices to the agreement, which it claimed required the city to maintain five police captain positions at all times. The parties submitted the issue for arbitration. An arbitration panel found that the city had violated the agreement by leaving open the vacancies and awarded each of the employees who were appointed to the position of police captain in September, 2018, an amount equal to the difference between their rate of pay on the date when the first police captain retired and their rate of pay on the date when they were appointed police captain, for the period between March, 2017, and September, 2018, not including any overtime worked during that period. The city filed an application to vacate the arbitration award, which the trial court denied, and the city appealed to this court. Held: 1. The trial court properly rejected the city's claim that the panel exceeded its authority in violation of the applicable statute (§ 52-418 (a) (4)) in finding that the city violated the agreement: although the agreement did not explicitly state that the city must employ five police captains at all times, the panel interpreted the language of the agreement in such a manner, such an interpretation was not unreasonable, and the city's disagreement with the interpretation was not sufficient to establish that the panel had exceeded its authority; moreover, the city could not prevail on its claim that the award failed to draw its essence from the agreement or that the panel was dispensing its own brand of industrial justic
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