Legal Opinion
Baker v. City of Lawrence
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 6, 1979PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
We took for direct review the appeal of the plaintiffs, six police officers.of the city of Lawrence, 3 from a declaratory judgment of the Superior Court regarding the legality and consequences of a request by the defendant director of public safety of the city that they submit to a lie detector test.
The facts, summarized in the findings which form the basis of the judgment, are drawn largely from the parties’ stipulation, and are not in material dispute. About 1 a.m., September 19, 1978, Sergeant Leo Ouellette and the plaintiff officers responded to an apparent breaking and entering of…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Schmerber v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York HarborSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Garrity v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Lefkowitz v. TurleySupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Gardner v. BroderickSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Carney v. City of SpringfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1988
- Attorney General v. ColletonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. HarveyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. ScanlanMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1980
- Local 346, International Brotherhood of Police Officers v. Labor Relations CommissionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
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