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DEROCHE v. MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION

447 Mass. 1 (2006)

WILLIAM DeROCHE v. MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 12, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas J. Scobbo, Jr. (Ann Ryan-Small with him) for Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department.

Seth H. Hochbaum for the plaintiff.

Beverly I. Ward for Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, & Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

James S. Weliky for National Employment Lawyers' Association, Massachusetts Chapter.

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

GREANEY, J.

This appeal arises out of a decision by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (commission) that the Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (department) unlawfully retaliated against the plaintiff for filing a complaint with the commission claiming that the department had discriminated against him on the basis of his age in violation of G. L. c. 151B, § 4 (4). The commission ordered the...

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