MASS. ELEC. CO. v. MASS. COMM'N AGAINST DISCRIMINATION


375 Mass. 160 (1978)

375 N.E.2d 1192

MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY vs. MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 4, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Moss & Harold N. Mack for the plaintiff.

Jeffrey J. Binder for the defendant.

Gene D. Dahmen, for the Women's Rights Project of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union Foundation, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & ABRAMS, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

In this appeal the plaintiff Massachusetts Electric Company (company) seeks review of a decision of the defendant Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (commission) ordering the company to cease and desist from maintaining its policy of denying disability benefits for pregnancy-related temporary disabilities and to pay compensation to all those who would have received disability benefits if their disabilities had been other than pregnancy-related...

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