Legal Opinion
Beaupre v. Cliff Smith & Associates
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 16, 2000No. 98-P-100PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLaurence, J.
The defendants, Cliff Smith & Associates (CSA)2 and Clifford F. Smith (CSA’s president and controlling shareholder), appeal from verdicts and damage awards by a Superior Court jury in favor of a former employee, the plaintiff, Mary Kellie Beaupre. The plaintiff had commenced suit in April, 1993, on a complaint alleging that her discharge from CSA in September, 1992, was motivated by unlawful sex discrimination in violation of G. L. c. 151B, § 4,3 in the form of sexual harassment of both the “quid pro quo” and “hostile work environment” varieties (see G. L. c. 151B, § 1[18]; Ramsdell v.…
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