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REDGRAVE v. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC.

399 Mass. 93 (1987)

502 N.E.2d 1375

VANESSA REDGRAVE & another vs. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Kornstein of New York for the plaintiffs.

Robert E. Sullivan (John T. Harding, Jr., & Cheryl W. Heilman with him) for the defendant.

Diana T. Tanaka, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Marc D. Stern, Lois Waldman & Ronald A. Krauss of New York, Marvin N. Geller & Thomas M. Sobol, for American Jewish Congress, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Marjorie Heins, F. Anthony Mooney & Robert P. Sherman, for Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has certified two questions to this court. See S.J.C. Rule 1:03, as appearing in 382 Mass. 700 (1981). The questions concern plaintiff Vanessa Redgrave's appeal from the denial of her motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict by a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts following a jury verdict favorable to the defendant Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc...

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