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BOSTON POLICE PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION, INC. v. CITY OF BOSTON

435 Mass. 718 (2002)

BOSTON POLICE PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION, INC., & others v. CITY OF BOSTON & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 30, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Becker for the plaintiffs.

John Foskett (Catherine S. Reidy with him) for the defendants.

Paul T. Hynes, for the interveners, was present but did not argue.

John Foskett, for the Massachusetts Municipal Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

IRELAND, J.

More than 1,300 police patrol officers and detectives (plaintiffs) sued the city of Boston and its police department (city) under G. L. c. 149, § 148, the so-called "weekly wage law."3 The plaintiffs argue that employee contributions to a tax-exempt deferred compensation plan are "wages" under the statute, and therefore subject to the requirement that they be paid within seven...

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