WYNN & WYNN, P.C. v. MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION


431 Mass. 655 (2000)

WYNN & WYNN, P.C. v. MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

June 6, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas A. Hale for the plaintiff.

Judith Ashton (Howard P. Speicher with her) for Jill Carmichael.

Jerrold S. Levinsky (Christine E. Davio with him) for Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Howard M. Brown, for Northeast Security, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, & COWIN, JJ.


MARSHALL, C.J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court affirming a decision of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD or commission) that the law firm of Wynn & Wynn, P.C. (Wynn & Wynn or firm), discriminated against Jill Carmichael on the basis of her sex when it failed to hire her as an associate on her graduation from law school. G. L. c. 151B, § 4 (1).2 We determine that the judge in...

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