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GORDON v. SHERIFF OF SUFFOLK COUNTY

411 Mass. 238 (1991)

580 N.E.2d 1039

JOHN GORDON & others vs. SHERIFF OF SUFFOLK COUNTY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Lamond for the plaintiffs.

Chester A. Janiak (Ann E. Merryfield & Walter M. Foster with him) for the defendant.

Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, & Luis A. Lavin, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

This case involves a dispute between employees at the Suffolk County house of correction at Deer Island (Deer Island) and the sheriff of Suffolk County (sheriff) over control and supervision of the house of correction and its personnel. The plaintiffs, the president and members of the labor union that represents correction officers at the house of correction, commenced this action in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County against the sheriff pursuant...

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