Title: Gallipo v. City of Rutland

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

Gallipo v. City of Rutland  (2000-217); 173 Vt. 223, 789 A.2d 942

[Filed 21-Dec-2001]

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                                No. 2000-217

Raymond F. Gallipo                            Supreme Court

                                              On Appeal from
  v.                                          Rutland Superior Court

City of Rutland and                           June Term, 2001
Gerald Lloyd

David A. Jenkins, J.

Andrew Jackson, Middlebury, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Kevin J. Coyle of McNeil, Leddy & Sheahan, Burlington, for
  Defendants-Appellees.

PRESENT: Dooley and Morse, JJ., and Katz, Supr. J., Cook, D.J.
         and Gibson, J. (Ret.), Specially  Assigned

       DOOLEY, J.   Plaintiff Raymond Gallipo appeals from the Rutland
  Superior Court's order  granting defendants, City of Rutland and Chief Fire
  Engineer Gerald Lloyd's, motions for summary  judgment.  Plaintiff argues
  on appeal that (1) the instant discrimination action under the Vermont 
  Fair Employment Practices Act, 21 V.S.A. §§ 495-496 (VFEPA), is not barred
  by the Workers'  Compensation Act's (WCA) exclusivity provision, 21 V.S.A.
  § 622; and (2) the Chief may be held  personally liable under VFEPA because
  the municipal officer immunities law, 24 V.S.A. § 901, does  not apply.  We
  affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings.

 

       This is the fifth time this protracted litigation, and related cases,
  have been before this Court.  Plaintiff was a firefighter in the Rutland
  Fire Department, and all of his claims arise out of this  status.  The
  first case, Gallipo v. City of Rutland, 163 Vt. 83,