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In a decision highly anticipated by the law enforcement community in Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court Wednesday ruled that the state’s ban on lie detectors does not apply to police officers suspected of “criminal activity” – even to police officers…
Continuing its relative and seemingly endless streak of anti-union arbitration decisions, the state’s highest appellate court reversed an arbitrator’s promotion of a bargaining unit employee. In Somerville v. Somerville Municipal Employees Association, SJC-10089 (May 22, 2008) (http://socialaw.org/slip.htm?cid=18195&sid=120), the Supreme Judicial…
The full Massachusetts Civil Service Commission has affirmed a hearing Commissioner’s ruling that a City cannot introduce evidence of the results of a lie detector test. Sandulli Grace Attorney Bryan Decker successfully argued at hearing that polygraph results should not…
