Matthews v. Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts · Decided 1997-11-12

Cited by 181 later decision(s) in our corpus · see the citation network in Lexace

Open in Lexace · Ask the AI about this case

From the opinion

Greaney, J. The plaintiff, Carleton Matthews, an African-American male, was terminated from his position as a forklift operator in the shipping department of the defendant’s, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.’s, Middleborough manufacturing facility on April 23, 1992, after he admitted to removing product *123 (cranberry sauce) from the facility’s premises without authorization…

Read the full opinion (source) ↗


Lexace provides legal information, not legal advice, and no attorney–client relationship is created. Citation figures are counts of later citing opinions in our corpus and may be incomplete; always read and Shepardize the full opinion before relying on it.