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BOSTON v. BOSTON POLICE PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION

443 Mass. 813 (2005)

CITY OF BOSTON v. BOSTON POLICE PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 4, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kerri E. Tierney, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the plaintiff.

John M. Becker for the defendant.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Philip Collins & Daniel C. Brown, for Massachusetts Municipal Association & another.

John M. Collins, for Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, Inc.

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

MARSHALL, C.J.

This case presents one of those "rare instances" in which an arbitrator's award must be vacated as contrary to "an explicit, well-defined, and dominant public policy." Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers, Dist. 17, 531 U.S. 57, 62, 63 (2000). See Lynn v. Thompson, 435 Mass. 54 (2001), cert...

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