Legal Opinion
Professional Fire Fighters v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 16, 2008No. 06-P-1511PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSikora, J.
In the year 2000 the Legislature enacted a comprehensive upgraded scheme for the coordinated delivery of emergency medical services (EMS) throughout the Commonwealth (the statute or EMS 2000).3 It designated the Department of Public Health as the “lead agency” for implementation of that effort. G. L. c. 111C, § 3(b). Under authority of the statute, the department promulgated regulations in 2003 and certain amendments to those regulations in 2004. By the present action for declaratory and injunctive relief, two representative associations and four individual members of the fire fighting…
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