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The Bad News – Massachusetts Appeals Court Rules That Chief May Force Officer To Submit To Polygraph Even If Junk Science And Not Pursuant to A Criminal Investigation.
In a textbook example of letting “the exception swallowing the rule,” the Massachusetts…
Appeals Court has held that the Massachusetts Bureau of Workers Compensation, which administers benefits to employees injured on the job, properly granted disability benefits to an injured truck driver, despite an independent medical report to the contrary. This decision to…
In a recent decision, Ariel v. Town of Kingston (#06-P-825) (June 6, 2007), the Appeals Court affirmed that Massachusetts police officers and their public employers are protected from negligence lawsuits. The Massachusetts Tort Claims Act states that Massachusetts public entities cannot…
