Legal Opinion
Anthony v. Com. of Mass.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided March 29, 1976No. Civ. A. 74-5061-T, 75-1991-TPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TAURO, District Judge.
These two actions are brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by four female Massachusetts residents who claim they failed to receive Civil Service appointments with the Commonwealth due to the operation of the Massachusetts Veterans’ Preference Statute,1 Mass.Gen.Laws ch. 31, § 23, which they claim unconstitutionally discriminates against them because of their sex. They now seek to permanently enjoin the continued enforcement of § 23.
Temporary restraining orders, consented to by all parties, were entered in each case by a single judge of this court prohibiting the…
2Cases cited66 opinions
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- Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. FeeneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Feeney v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Ballou v. State, Department of Civil ServiceSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1978
- Thomas E. Lister v. Patrick J. LuceyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1978
- Massachusetts v. FeeneySupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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