LOPEZ v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-11013.

463 Mass. 696 (2012)

PEDRO LOPEZ & others v. COMMONWEALTH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 9, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold L. Lichten ( Stephen S. Churchill with him) for the plaintiffs.

Sookyoung Shin , Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Catherine C. Ziehl & Beverly I. Ward for Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.


DUFFLY, J.

The named plaintiffs, African-American and Hispanic police officers employed by municipalities throughout the Commonwealth who are subject to the civil service law, G. L. c. 31, brought suit in the Superior Court on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated individuals against the defendants, the Commonwealth and the division of human resources (division). The plaintiffs alleged that the division engaged in racial discrimination through the...

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