ASSOCIATED GEN. CONTRACTORS OF MASS., INC. v. ALTSHULER

No. 73-1250.

490 F.2d 9 (1973)

ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants. v. Alan ALTSHULER et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 30, 1973.

Certiorari Denied April 22, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. O'Leary, Boston, Mass., with whom Joseph P. Rooney, Ansel B. Chaplin, Gaston, Snow, Motley & Holt, Boston, Mass., and James E. Flynn, Jr., Cambridge, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Dennis L. Ditelberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Gershon M. Ratner, Boston, Mass., with whom Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., John F. Houton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael J. Hoare, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Benjamin Jones, and Robert City, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendants-appellees.

Robert T. Moore, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom William J. Kilberg, Sol. of Labor, J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., James N. Gabriel, U. S. Atty., and David L. Rose, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for The Secretary of Labor of The United States, amicus curiae.

Jerry Cohen, Morris Shubow, John Henn, John Reinstein, Matthew Feinberg, Charles A. Levin, Mark A. Michelson, and Stephen R. Moore on brief for Civil Liberties Union and American Jewish Congress, New England Region, amici curiae.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, MOORE and McENTEE, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied April 22, 1974. See 94 S.Ct. 1971.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining, as constitutional and in accord with state law, certain contract requirements imposed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts upon contractors engaged in publicly funded construction work at Boston State College. Appellants are thirteen individual construction companies, now engaged in construction of public buildings for the Commonwealth, and...

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