MILTON v. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION


365 Mass. 368 (1974)

312 N.E.2d 188

TOWN OF MILTON & others vs. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 5, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence T. Bench, Assistant Attorney General (Walter H. Mayo, III, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for Civil Service Commission & another.

Robert D. O'Leary, Town Counsel, for the town of Milton (Lawrence J. Markell, Assistant Town Counsel, for the town of Marblehead, with him).

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


REARDON, J.

The plaintiffs, twenty-seven cities and towns, brought this bill in equity seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Civil Service Commission and the director of civil service of the Commonwealth (director). The bill sought to compel the defendants to comply with certain provisions of St. 1972, c. 226 (c. 226), amending G.L.c. 31, § 48A. After a trial in the Superior Court the judge entered a final decree declaring c. 226 constitutional...

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