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SILVESTRIS v. TANTASQUA REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

446 Mass. 756 (2006)

JOANNE SILVESTRIS vs. TANTASQUA REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (and a companion case).

Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 18, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maria E. DeLuzio (Karen W. Peters with her) for Tantasqua Regional School District.

Cornelius J. Moriarty, II, for for Joanne Silvestris & another.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Danielle Y. Vanderzanden & Douglass C. Lawrence for Associated Industries of Massachusetts.

Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, Catherine C. Ziehl, & Zoe Butler-Stark, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Attorney General.

Sara Smolik, Robert Mantell, & Elizabeth A. Rodgers for National Employment Lawyers Association, Massachusetts Chapter.

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

SPINA, J.

Joanne Silvestris and Valerie Goncalves (collectively, plaintiffs) are teachers in the technical division of Tantasqua regional high school (Tantasqua).2 On July 14, 1999, each filed a discrimination charge against the Tantasqua regional school district (school district) with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), claiming that the school district had violated the Massachusetts antidiscrimination statute...

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