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sex discrimination claim in Massachusetts

5 Massachusetts opinions name it 2 courts 1994–2025 1 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Massachusetts courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (3)

CaseFollowedCited
Ayash v. Dana-Farber Cancer Institutegreen
mass · 2005 · cited in 1 Massachusetts opinions naming this issue, 2025–2025
1 sentence

2025See Ayash v. Dana-Farber Cancer Inst., 443 Mass. 367 , 388 n.19 (2005).

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Carolyn M. GALLAGHER, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. WILTON ENTERPRISES, INC., Defendant, Appellantgreen
ca1 · 1992 · cited in 1 Massachusetts opinions naming this issue, 2004–2004
1 sentence

2004The court determined that the plaintiff’s claim was not within art. 15’s exception for claims that had been addressed by the court’s equity jurisdiction, as it existed in 1780, in either subject matter or the nature of the remedy sought and, instead, analogized the claim “to common law actions sounding in both tort and contract.” Id., citing Gallagher v. Wilton Enters., Inc., 962 F.2d 120, 122-123 (1st Cir. 1992).

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Conway v. Electro Switch Corp.green
mass · 1988 · cited in 1 Massachusetts opinions naming this issue, 1994–1994
1 sentence

1994The statute clearly affords the plaintiff the “legal remedy of compensatory damages.” Conway v. Electro Switch Corp., 402 Mass. 385, 387 (1988). *225 The defendant concedes that the plaintiff’s sex discrimination claim is analogous to actions at common law, but argues that, absent clear legislative direction, the court should not imply a right to a jury trial.

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

CaseNegativeCited
No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Massachusetts. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (2)

CaseCitedYears
Gasior v. Massachusetts General Hospital green
mass · 2006
1 sentence

2014Defendants misread the law when they assert that “c. 151B claims and contractual claims based on the same course of action are mutually exclusive.” It is true that Shalaby could “not maintain a common-law breach of contract claim for” Arctic Sand’s “allegedly discriminatory dismissal of [her] because any such claim would be preempted by G.L.c. 151B.” Gasior v. Massachusetts Gen’l Hosp., 446 Mass. 645 , 651 n.8 (2006).

12014–2014
Dalis v. Buyer Advertising, Inc. green
mass · 1994
1 sentence

1997Dalis, supra at 223 .

11997–1997

Statutes the citing opinions construe

MA § Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B, § 4 (4) MA § Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B, § 9 (3)

Counted by distinct opinions that both name this issue and are annotated to the section; sections every opinion cites regardless of issue are not filtered here, so read the counts against the total above.

Where else courts name it

IA 7 (1988–2017) CA 6 (1980–2026) MA 5 (1994–2025) MI 5 (1997–2023) WA 5 (1994–2019) OH 4 (1994–2024) PA 4 (1980–2019) MO 4 (2019–2025) OR 3 (1990–2023) HI 2 (2003–2025) IN 2 (2003–2004)

Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.

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