SMITH v. WINTER PLACE LLC


447 Mass. 363 (2006)

SAMANTHA SMITH & others v. WINTER PLACE LLC & others.

Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 1, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shannon Liss-Riordan for the plaintiffs.

Gordon P. Katz for the defendants.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

John E. Coyne & Kevin P. Sweeney for Massachusetts Restaurant Association.

Ingrid Nava, Audrey R. Richardson, Patti A. Prunhuber, & Donald J. Siegel for Greater Boston Legal Services & others.

Julia J. Carabillo & Andrea C. Kramer for The Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts.

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


CORDY, J.

Samantha Smith, Bruce Porter, and Charles Kimball were servers at the landmark Boston restaurant Locke-Ober; Pierre Sosnitsky was the maitre d' and a manager. They contend that the defendants terminated their employment in violation of the retaliation provision of the Massachusetts wage laws, G. L. c. 149, § 148A, for complaining about what they perceived to be violations of the statute's tip pooling provision, G. L. c. 149, § 152A. A Superior...

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