Employment – Disparate treatment – Discipline
BOSTON, MA - Where a discrimination complaint has been filed by a plaintiff who was terminated from his position as an officer with the Suffolk University Police Department, ...More

Real property – Agricultural land – Option
BOSTON, MA - Where (1) a plaintiff entered into a contract to purchase a cranberry bog in Duxbury that was assessed and taxed as agricultural land under G.L.c. 61A and (2) after ...More

Retirement – Purchase of service – Teacher
BOSTON, MA - Where the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System denied a petitioner’s application to purchase service for her prior work at a non-public school for students ...More

Retirement – Purchase of service – Similarity requirement
BOSTON, MA - Where the State Board of Retirement denied a petitioner’s request to purchase service for the contract position of visiting instructor at Bridgewater State University ...More

Workers’ compensation – Documentation – Counsel fees
BOSTON, MA - Where an administrative judge awarded an employee temporary total incapacity benefits plus §30 medical benefits, that decision should be affirmed despite the self-insurer’s ...More

Taxation – Late payment – Financial hardship
BOSTON, MA - Where the commissioner of revenue refused to abate penalties and interest assessed to an appellant for late payment of income taxes, the appellant’s claim of financial ...More

Insurance – LTD benefits – ERISA
BOSTON, MA - Where a plaintiff seeking reinstatement of her long-term disability benefits has brought an action pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, summary ...More