Black v. School Committee of Malden

When these cases were before us previously, we held that the school committee’s discharges of the plaintiffs because of their pregnancies violated their constitutional rights. Black v. School Committee of Malden, 365 Mass. 197 (1974). We passed on various other questions, vacated the decrees, and remanded the cases to the Superior Court for further proceedings. Those further proceedings, which were to deal with the question of the defendant’s liability for back pay, have taken place, and we have before us principally the defendant’s appeals from judgments awarding damages to the plaintiffs.…