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SMITH COLLEGE v. MASS. COMM. AGAINST DISCRIMINATION

376 Mass. 221 (1978)

380 N.E.2d 121

SMITH COLLEGE & others vs. MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

August 25, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara J. Rouse, Assistant Attorney General (Robert H. Bohn, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with her) for the defendant.

Edward B. Hanify (Stephen B. Perlman, Eleanor D. Acheson & H. Reed Witherby with him) for the plaintiffs.

Nancy Gertner & Betty Gittes, for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

In April, 1972, Maurianne Adams and Mary Carruthers,2 then assistant professors of English at Smith College (Smith), a private liberal arts college for women, each filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) alleging unlawful discrimination in that she had not been recommended for tenure because of her sex. G.L.c. 151B, § 4. The result of these adverse tenure decisions was that Smith...

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