Supreme Judicial Court of Maine October 20, 1978 (Longley v. State Employees Appeals Board)

ARCHIBALD, Justice.

In early 1975, at the beginning of his administration, Governor James B. Longley informed Herbert S. Sperry that he would not be reappointed to the position of Director of the Maine Division of Economic Opportunity, to which Mr. Sperry had been appointed in 1967 by the former Governor. Mr.