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U.S. Supreme Court FIREFIGHTERS v. BOSTON CHAPTER, NAACP, 461 U.S. 477 (1983) 461 U.S. 477
BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS UNION, LOCAL 718 v. BOSTON CHAPTER,...
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Revelations that two Boston firefighters had intoxicants in their systems when they died in a fire last month raise three troubling questions:
First, how widespread is this problem, not just in Boston but in other departments across the U.S.?
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Arbitrator Dana Edward Eischen wrote in his decision that the 19 percent raise over four years was warranted in exchange for a mandatory drug and alcohol testing policy for firefighters.
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- 28 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. 1657, 29 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 32,794 Boston Chapter, Naacp, Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Nancy B. Beecher, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants, and Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718, Intervenor-Appellant. Pedro Castro, Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Nancy Beecher, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants, and Boston Police Patrolmen'S Association, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant., 679 F.2d 965 (1st Cir. 1982)
E. David Wanger, Boston, Mass., with whom John F. McMahon, and Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle & Wanger, P. C., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for inter...
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BOSTON -- Fire broke out inside a Boston restaurant, killing two firefighters and injuring 10 others who became disoriented in the dense smoke, officials said Thursday.
The fire began Wednesday evening in the apparently closed Tai-Ho Mandarin and Cantonese restaurant and spread to an adjoining building in a one-story row of yellow-brick storefronts, where at least three other stores were damaged.
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Adam M. Key, law student at Regent University, who is facing possible disciplinary action from the law school after posting unflattering photographs of Regent founder Pat Robertson on his Facebook page. "Judge Hopkins... ought to be sent to her corner and forced to repeat 50 times: 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.'" -Media blogger Dan Kennedy after Suffolk Superior Court Judge Merita Hopkins prohibited a Boston TV station from airing a story about the autopsy results for two local firefighters who died in the line of duty.
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COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION
It is a strange calculus that would lead to a Boston Globe headline yesterday proclaiming that Boston will save $45 million o...
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COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION
What started out as a serious but unremarkable fire in Roxbury Wednesday night became another painful reminder that few struc...
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- 33 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. 884, 32 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 33,854 Boston Chapter, Naacp, Et Al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Nancy B. Beecher, Et Al., Defendants, Appellees, Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718, Intervenor, Appellant. Pedro Castro, Et Al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Nancy B. Beecher, Et Al., Defendants, Appellees, Boston Police Patrolmen'S Association, Inc., Intervenor, Appellant. Pedro Castro, Et Al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Nancy B. Beecher, Et Al., Defendants, Appellants. Boston Chapter, Naacp, Et Al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Nancy B. Beecher, Et Al., Defendants, Appellees, Civil Service Commission, Et Al., Defendants, Appellants., 716 F.2d 931 (1st Cir. 1983)
Thomas A. Barnico, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Thomas R. Kiley, First Asst. Atty. Gen., E. Michael Sloman, Asst. Atty...
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Boston volunteer firefighters and the town supervisor say they have reached an agreement on fire protection for next year.
Details of the agreement are not being released until attorneys for the town and fire companies go over the proposed contract.