Legal Opinion
Dillon v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 2, 2000No. 98-P-1115PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
It has been a practice of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) since at least 1979 to tape *310record the conversations on nearly all its telephone lines connected to its major operational centers. On September 3, 1996, the plaintiff Thomas P. Dillon, Jr., and others, MBTA employees, commenced the present class action on behalf of the employees in general, claiming monetary recovery against the defendant MBTA. This was on the theory that the recording of the phone calls encompassed a violation of the Massachusetts wiretap statute, G. L. c. 272, § 99, which as a rule (subject to…
2Cases cited33 opinions
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- Berry v. BrannerOregon Supreme Court · 1966
- Franklin v. AlbertMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Williams v. PoulosCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
- Attorney General v. School Committee of EssexMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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