JOULÉ, INC. v. SIMMONS

SJC-10712.

459 Mass. 88 (2011)

JOULÉ, INC., & others v. RANDI SIMMONS & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 10, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Reed ( Eugene J. Sullivan, III , with him) for the plaintiffs.

Barbara A. Robb ( Nancy S. Shilepsky with her) for the defendant.

Catherine C. Ziehl for the intervener.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Andrew M. Abraham & J. Michael Conley for The Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

John Pagliaro & Martin J. Newhouse for New England Legal Foundation & another.

Robert S. Mantell for Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association.

Martha Coakley , Attorney General, & Maura T. Healey & Jonathan B. Miller , Assistant Attorneys General, for the Commonwealth.

Anne L. Josephson & Heidi S. Alexander for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & others.

Present: IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.


BOTSFORD, J.

The plaintiff Joulé Technical Staffing, Inc. (Joulé), employed the defendant, Randi Simmons, from 2008 to 2009.3 Both were parties to an employment agreement containing an arbitration provision that purported to cover claims of employment discrimination expressly. Simmons was terminated from her position in July, 2009. Simmons, who claims that her termination was based on discrimination and retaliation by Joulé...

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