MASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASS'N v. DUKAKIS

No. 83-1732.

726 F.2d 41 (1984)

MASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Michael S. DUKAKIS, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan J. McDonald, with whom McDonald & Noonan, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

William L. Pardee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Government Bureau, with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, ALDRICH and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

The issue presented is whether a new Massachusetts statute aimed at restraining increases in hospital costs impermissibly interferes with the collective bargaining efforts of the plaintiff, the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), in such a way that the statute must be held to be preempted by the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 141 et seq., and the policies it embodies.

The district court dismissed the...

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