Brown v. F.L. Roberts & Co.

In June, 2006, the plaintiff filed a complaint in the Superior Court pursuant to G. L. c. 15IB, § 4 (1A), claiming that a new grooming policy at one of the defendant’s businesses, which required all employees who had customer contact to be clean shaven, discriminated against him due to his religion. The parties filed cross motions for summary judgment. A Superior Court judge concluded that, as a matter of law, an exemption from the grooming policy would constitute an undue hardship because the defendant had a right to control its public image. She granted the defendant’s cross motion for…