United States First Circuit

In plaintiff-officers' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a town, its officials and police chiefs involving various workplace discrimination and harassment claims, district court's grant of a directed verdict in favor of one of the two police chiefs is affirmed as any error in granting the directed verdict was harmless because of the rejection of plaintiffs' claims against the other police chief by a different jury in a second trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2010
• Published 04/05/2010

Judges

• Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA, BOUDIN, GAJARSA,LIPEZ, HOWARD and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph M. Mahaney, S. Natick, MA, Diane M. Murphy, Hopkinton, MA, for Plaintiffs, Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jackie Cowin, Esq., Joseph L. Tehan, Jr., Esq., Kopelman & Paige, PC, Boston, MA, Jennifer S. Bunce, Gareth W. Notis, Morrison Mahoney, LLP, Boston, MA, for Defendants, Appellees., Valerie A. McCormack, Esq., Boston, MA, Stephen C. Pfaff, Louison Costello Condon & Pfaff LLP, Boston, MA, for Defendants.