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FILIPPONE v. MAYOR OF NEWTON

392 Mass. 622 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 182

VINCENT FILIPPONE & others vs. MAYOR OF NEWTON & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 7, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur H. Goldsmith for the plaintiffs.

Edward J. Barshak (Daniel M. Funk, City Solicitor, Denise M. Provost, Assistant City Solicitor & Natasha C. Lisman with him) for the Mayor of Newton & others.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, & Roberta Thomas Brown, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

NOLAN, J.

This matter is before us following the granting of the defendants' application for further appellate review. The Appeals Court held invalid, as an impermissible exercise of home rule powers, a Newton ordinance providing for indemnification of municipal employees who are named as defendants in civil rights actions. Filippone v. Mayor of Newton, 16 Mass.App.Ct. 417, 426 (1983). For reasons set forth...

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