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Massachusetts Appeals Court· 3/21/1985

Melley v. Gillette Corp.

Citations

  • 475 N.E.2d 1227
  • 19 Mass. App. Ct. 511
  • 1 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 720
  • 1985 Mass. App. LEXIS 1626
  • 41 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1320

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  • distinguishing between claims duplicative of those available under G.L.c. 151B and common-law tort claims available prior to the enactment of G.L.c. 151B
  • specifically observing that statutory rights and remedies predated recognition of common-law tort of wrongful discharge in Massachusetts
  • comprehensive remedial statute providing for administrative and judicial remedies, and operating against age discrimination, precluded creation of new common law action based on public policy expressed in the statute
  • Mass. Gen. L. c. 151B, § 9 does not preclude common law tort of interference of an advantageous relationship
  • “a litigant is first to follow the administrative route [which] accords with the usual requirement that administrative remedies are to be exhausted before resort is had to the courts”
  • court declined to recognize a common law right based on public policy where Legislature had created a detailed administrative solution and provided specific remedies for violations of discrimina-tions laws

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Judges: Dreben, Kaplan, Smith

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