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GERMAN v. COMMONWEALTH

410 Mass. 445 (1991)

574 N.E.2d 336

MARJORY A. GERMAN vs. COMMONWEALTH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjory A. German, pro se.

William W. Porter, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth & others.

Gordon P. Ramsey, for the Massachusetts State Managers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Sandra C. Quinn, for Massachusetts Teachers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Augustus J. Camelio, Matthew D. Jones & David B. Rome, for Alliance, ASCME-SEIU, AFL-CIO, CLC, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

NOLAN, J.

We are called upon to pass on the constitutionality of St. 1991, c. 6, § 90, the so-called "furlough" law. Specifically, we are asked to decide whether § 90 imposes a discriminatory and unconstitutional graduated "tax" on State employees, and whether it effects a governmental "taking" of the plaintiff's property without reasonable compensation in violation of art. 10 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. We determine that § 90 does not...

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