BOSTON — Attorneys representing multiple in-state firearm businesses in a lawsuit challenging Attorney General Maura Healey's "copycat" weapon enforcement directive have accused the Bay State's top cop of "cavalierly" treating the rules governing federal court proceedings after she motioned to submit a 40-page dismissal memorandum — double the permitted length.
The explosive response by attorneys representing the Worcester-based Pullman Arms retailer, in addition to three other sellers and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, accuses Healey of failing to "explain in any sufficient way why double the allowed page is needed" and describes the opening portion of her memorandum as "constituting little more than a press release."
STATE HOUSE – The minimum wage in Massachusetts is set to rise one dollar to $11 an hour on Jan. 1, but low-wage workers are poised to press for passage in 2017 of legislation boosting the wage floor to $15 an hour.
Workers and labor union officials packed Great Hall Tuesday where organizers told the News Service they plan to seek a $15 an hour statewide minimum wage during the 2017-2018 session. Bills calling for a $15 wage floor for airport workers and big box retail store employees failed this session, and activists have elected to broaden the scope of their legislation to encompass all minimum wage employees.
