Legal Opinion
Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Ass'n v. State Racing Commission
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 9, 1989PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The plaintiff filed suit in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County seeking a declaration that the “human drug testing” regulation adopted by the State Racing Commission (commission), 205 Code Mass. Regs. § 4.57 (1986), violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, arts. 1, 10, 12, and 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, G. L. c. 12, § 111 (1986 ed.), and the right of privacy statute, G. L. c. 214, § IB (1986 ed.), and that the regulation’s provision permitting immediate suspension of licensees who test…
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