Rock v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

How courts have described this case

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• upholding “continuing violation” regulation as permitting MCAD to remedy ongoing discriminatory policies
• upholding “continuing violation” regulation as permitting MCAD to remedy ongoing discriminatory policies
• “primary responsibility” to determine scope of G. L. c. 151B, § 5, “has been entrusted to the MCAD, not to the courts”
• “Since we find no error in the commission’s order . . . we do not reach these [procedural] issues”
• administrative interpretation accorded deference where agency must interpret a legislative policy which is only “‘broadly set out in the governing statute’”
• MCAD, not courts, has primary responsibility to determine scope of G. L. c. 151B

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