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· 11/28/1990

Local 1445, United Food and Commercial Workers Union v. Police Chief

Citations

  • 563 N.E.2d 693
  • 29 Mass. App. Ct. 554

How courts have described this case

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  • discussing history of Lord's Day laws becoming secular common day of rest law over time
  • persons who seek to maintain an action against the government must be able to describe impairment of an economic or civic interest
  • union lacked standing to enforce Sunday laws where G.L.c. 136, §10 empowered only specified public officers to seek injunctive relief from violations
  • where “the power to seek injunctions is expressly conferred upon specified public officers, we may assume that the Legislature did not intend to create . . . private attorney general rights”

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Judges: Kass, Kaplan, Ireland

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