ALLIANCE, AFSCME/SEIU, AFL-CIO v. COMMONWEALTH


427 Mass. 546 (1998)

ALLIANCE, AFSCME/SEIU, AFL-CIO, & ANOTHER v. COMMONWEALTH & others; THE GOVERNOR, intervener.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 1, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Jacobson for the plaintiffs.

Michael J. Tuteur, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the intervener.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


FRIED, J.

The plaintiffs are labor organizations that represent certain State employees. In a complaint filed in the county court, they contend that the Governor's purported disapproval of a clause requiring not less than thirty-nine full-time equivalent positions as part of a budget item providing funding for early intervention services to children under the age of three and their families is an invalid exercise of the Governor's authority. They seek an order requiring...

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