BLACK v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF MALDEN


365 Mass. 197 (1974)

310 N.E.2d 330

FRANCINE E. BLACK vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF MALDEN & another (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 26, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo P. De Marco, City Solicitor, for the School Committee.

Robert I. Deutsch (Paul H. Rothschild with him) for Francine Black.

Gerald B. Gallagher (Robert D. Smith with him) for Kathleen M. Lane.

Jeffrey M. Freedman, for Massachusetts Teachers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, & KAPLAN, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

The school committee and superintendent of schools of Malden, defendants, appeal from a final decree against them in declaratory suits brought by two teachers in the Malden public schools. The questions relate to so called "maternity leave" and our task has been lightened by recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the constitutional aspects of that subject. See Cleveland Bd. of Educ. v. LaFleur, and the companion case...

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