Legal Opinion
State Police for Automatic Retirement Ass'n v. Difava
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 5, 2001No. CIV. A. 01CV10053PBSPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge.
The State Police for Automatic Retirement Association (“SPARA”), a voluntary association of younger State Police Troopers, has brought a collateral attack on a permanent injunction entered in 1998 barring the State defendants from discharging State Police officers on the basis of age under the State’s statutory retirement provisions. SPARA contends that the injunction violates the so-called safe harbor provision of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”), 29 U.S.C. § 623(j), with respect to State Police Troopers who were not named plaintiffs…
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