PORTER v. TREASURER & COLLECTOR OF TAXES OF WORCESTER


385 Mass. 335 (1982)

431 N.E.2d 934

JOANNE PORTER vs. TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES OF WORCESTER & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

February 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vida K. Berkowitz for the plaintiff.

Lee Weissinger, Assistant City Solicitor (John M. Hayes, Assistant City Solicitor, with him) for the defendants.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


LIACOS, J.

This appeal concerns a claim by the plaintiff against officials for the city of Worcester (city) for attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1976). The plaintiff, on behalf of herself and others similarly situated, commenced a class action in September, 1977, for relief against the coercive use of threats of summary arrest and incarceration by local tax collectors. See G.L.c. 60, §§ 29-34A, as amended through St. 1963, c. 160, § 29....

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