Pedlosky v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A judge of the Superior Court has reserved and reported without decision this bill for a declaratory decree by an assistant professor of mathematics at the defendant Institute seeking a binding declaration as to whether G. L. c. 71, § 30A (as amended through St. 1948, c. 160, § 2), 1 the teachers’ oath law, so called, violates the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the Commonwealth.

The case is presented in a case stated. The plaintiff, a citizen of the United States and a resident of Boston, is over twenty-one years of age. He is a qualified teacher whose competency and…