Legal Opinion
Broderick v. Police Commissioner of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 4, 1975PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, J.
This is an appeal by the plaintiffs, who are police officers in the city of Boston, from a declaratory judgment entered by a Superior Court judge declaring, in essence, that the officers must provide written answers to a number of written questions ad dressed to the officers by the defendant, who is the police commissioner of the city of Boston (commissioner). After the appeal was entered in the Appeals Court, the case was transferred to this court on our own motion. We affirm.
On Friday, May 10, 1974, approximately ninety off-duty Boston police officers journeyed to Newport, Rhode Island, to…
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