POWERS v. FREETOWN-LAKEVILLE REG. SCHOOL DIST. COMM.


392 Mass. 656 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 203

DEAN A. POWERS vs. FREETOWN-LAKEVILLE REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMITTEE (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

August 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph T. Calderaro for the defendant.

William M. Straus for the plaintiffs.

Roger Dowd & Elliott Powers, for Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Michael J. Long, for Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Austin Broadhurst & Margaret A. Keenan, for Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

James C. Heigham, for Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


NOLAN, J.

The Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District Committee (school committee) appeals from judgments entered in the Superior Court. Those judgments declared that the school committee violated G.L.c. 71, § 42A,2 in transferring Powers from his position as a regional high school assistant principal to that of a middle school assistant principal, that the school committee violated G.L.c. 39, § 23B,3

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