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OBERLIES v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

SJC-12472, SJC-12473.

479 Mass. 823 (2018)

AMANDA S. OBERLIES & others v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another. DONNA KELLY WILLIAMS & others v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 18, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward V. Colbert, III (David Koha & Carmen F. Francella, III, also present) for Donna Kelly Williams & others.

Juliana deHaan Rice, Assistant Attorney General (Michael B. MacKenzie, Assistant Attorney General, also present) for the Attorney General.

Andrew N. Nathanson (Elissa Flynn-Poppey & Mathilda McGee-Tubb also present) for Amanda S. Oberlies & others.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Thaddeus A. Heuer, Andrew M. London, & Rachel C. Hutchinson for Steward Health Care System LLC.

Edward V. Colbert, III, David Koha, & Carmen F. Francella, III, for Massachusetts Nurses Association.

Carol Igoe, of California, & David Hadas for National Nurses United & another.

Thomas R. Kiley, Carl Valvo, & Meredith Fierro for American Nurses Association Massachusetts, Inc.

Elissa Flynn-Poppey, Andrew N. Nathanson, & Mathilda S. McGee-Tubb for Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association & others.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

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