State high court won’t dismiss layoff lawsuit (New London Day)

Hartford - The Connecticut Supreme Court has refused the state’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it after then-Gov. John G. Rowland laid off thousands of state workers in 2003. The suit, filed in 2005 by four laid-off state workers, claims that approximately 2,800 unionized state employees were targeted by the Rowland administration because of their union membership and refusal to …