Wallerstein v. Board of Bar Examiners

Lester S. Wallerstein, a member of the Massachusetts bar, requested the defendant, Board of Bar Examiners (board), to disclose to him his score in the multistate bar examination. The board refused. Wallerstein sought declaratory and injunctive relief and exemplary damages in the Superior Court. A judge of that court allowed the board’s motion to dismiss the action pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 12 (b) (6), 365 Mass. 754 (1974). Wallerstein appealed, and we transferred the case to this court on our own initiative. We affirm.

Wallerstein relies on the Fair Information Practices Act, G. L. c. 66A…