MASS. ASS'N OF AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE, INC. v. BOSTON POLICE DEPT.

No. 85-1453.

780 F.2d 5 (1985)

MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. The BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, et al., Defendants, Appellees. Appeal of BOSTON POLICE DETECTIVES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Regina L. Quinlan, Boston, Mass., for appellant.

Jonathan M. Albano with whom John F. Adkins, Bingham, Dana & Gould, and Barbara Arnwine, Boston, Mass., were on brief for appellee Massachusetts Ass'n of Afro-American Police, Inc.

Leonard G. Learner, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief for appellee Dept. of Personnel Admin.

Before COFFIN and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

A group of Boston police officers appeal the district court's denial, 106 F.R.D. 80, of their motion to intervene in Massachusetts Association of Afro-American Police, Inc. (MAAAP) v. The Boston Police Department, Civ. Action No. 78-529McN (filed March 2, 1978), a case in which black police officers attacked the Boston Police Department's promotion practices as illegally discriminatory....

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