Jancey v. School Committee

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that MEPA and FEPA differ “significantly” and Massachusetts does not “follow slavishly the Federal approach”
• holding G.L.c. 258 inapplicable to intentional tort claims against a public employer itself
• leaving open question whether all gender-based pay inequity claims arise from acts “declared unlawful” by G. L. c. 151B, § 4
• where female plaintiffs used judicial route to vindicate rights, court rejected argument that exclusive remedy for pay discrimination is G. L. c. 151B
• “[E]ven though wage discrimination has historical connections to common law tort and contract claims, acts of discrimination—whether intentional or unintentional—do not thereby become torts.”
• \acts of discrimination — whether intentional or unintentional — do not thereby become torts.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).