PALMER v. BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF MARBLEHEAD


368 Mass. 620 (1975)

335 N.E.2d 349

JOHN B. PALMER vs. BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF MARBLEHEAD & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

September 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Lausier, Town Counsel, for the Board of Selectmen of Marblehead & others.

John N. Nestor for the plaintiff.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, and Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Robert H. Quinn, for Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Henry Wise & Robert L. Wise, for State Police Association of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


HENNESSEY, J.

In this case we are called on to decide whether G.L.c. 41, § 108L,1 establishing a career incentive pay program for certain regular full time police officers, includes an officer who gained his baccalaureate degree before being appointed to his town police department and before his town had adopted § 108L. Salary increases are based on credit points for semester hours...

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