Legal Opinion

Bournewood Hosp. v. MASS COMM'N AGAINST DISCRIMINATION

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided November 4, 1976PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

371 Mass. 303 (1976)

358 N.E.2d 235

BOURNEWOOD HOSPITAL, INC.

vs.

MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION & another.[1]

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

May 5, 1976.

November 4, 1976.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.

Robert S. Cohen for Ellen J. Silberberg, intervener.

William B. Baker for Bournewood Hospital, Inc.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, & Patricia C. Gunn, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

On October 28, 1970, Ellen J. Silberberg filed a complaint (the first complaint) with the Massachusetts…

2Cases cited42 opinions

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3Cited by12 opinions

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