STATE POLICE FOR AUTOMATIC RETIREMENT v. DIFAVA

No. CIV. A. 01-10053-PBS.

138 F.Supp.2d 142 (2001)

STATE POLICE FOR AUTOMATIC RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. John DIFAVA, Superintendent of the Dept. of State Police, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 28, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. McLaughlin, Boston, MA, for State Police, for automatic retirement association (SPARA), Plaintiffs.

Thomas A. Barnico, Deborah S. Steenland, Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for John Difava, Ellen Philbin, Jane Perlov, Defendants.

Katherine Bissell, Regional Attorney, Elizabeth Grossman, Supervisory Trial Attorney, Michael J. O'Brien, Senior Trial Attorney, New York, NY, for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

James B. Conroy, Jeffrey L. Levy, James B. Conroy, Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP, Boston, MA, for Charles W. Flynn, Gregory P. D'Aiuto, James F. McDonald, Albert A. Simon, Jr., William F. O'Connell, Jr., Kevin Layden, John M. McDonough, Thomas F. Ryan, Thomas F. Culliney, Thomas W. Stewart, Robert M. Ryan, Michael J. Kelly, Roland Lacasse, Jr., Edward J. Lee, Jr., George E. Chaisson, Richard T. Brady,. John M. Melia, Richard J. Sullivan, Jeremiah J. Kelleher, Thomas J. McNulty, John B. Schumaker, Harold E. Ameral, Francis Nardone, James O. Giffen, Jr., Paul Maloney, John A. Crawford, Daniel E. Sullivan, Francis L. Muolo, William J. McLean, John F. Downey, Jr., Robert T. Devereaux, Movants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

The State Police for Automatic Retirement Association ("SPARA") has brought this action challenging the constitutionality of a permanent injunction entered in 1998 that prevented enforcement of a Massachusetts law mandating a maximum retirement age of 55 years old for members of the State Police force. Citing the recent Supreme Court ruling in Kimel v. Florida Bd. of Regents, 528 U.S. 62<...

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