Legal Opinion

School Committee of Lexington v. Commissioner of Education

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided May 19, 1986Published

1Opinion of the Court

397 Mass. 593 (1986)

492 N.E.2d 736

SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF LEXINGTON & another[1]

vs.

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION & another[2] (and a companion case[3]).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 10, 1986.

May 19, 1986.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

Laurie S. Gill (Jeffrey Swope with her) for School Committee of Lexington & another.

Madelyn N. Morris, Assistant City Solicitor, for the City of Newton & another.

Carolyn V. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioner of Education & another.

LYNCH, J.

On October 7, 1985, the town of Lexington and the…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. HaldermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  2. Rosado v. WymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Bloom v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
  4. Attorney General v. School Committee of EssexMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
  5. Massachusetts Teachers Ass'n v. Secretary of the CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981

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