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Objections to the policy prompted the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) to begin an investigation into whether the ordinance ran contrary to state civil rights laws forbidding discrimination on the basis of handicap. MCAD officials say that because AIDS is regarded as a handicap, its victims should be protected by state civil rights laws...
...very excited to see that [Cambridge has] revoked the policy," said Kathleen M. Allen, one of three MCAD commissioners. "There is nothing about AIDS and the AIDS virus that indicates that it should be treated any different then any other handicap...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), an agency which enforces the state's civil rights laws, will determine in the next month whether the Cambridge AIDS policy is discriminatory, MCAD will review the guidelines to see if they discriminate on the basis of handicap...
This week's appeals court decision to reverse the October ruling centered on the issue of timeliness. The Federal District Court, originally decided that the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD)--a state body that has first crack at such claims--had not finished its administrative proceedings before the 300-day termination deadline had passed...
...Coffin ruled that this was not the case because 27 days before the deadline passed, the MCAD decided not to process the case but to refer it back to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The referral back to the EEOC, which four years later gave Isaac notice of "right to sue," constituted, in Coffin's opinion, MCAD's official termination of administrative proceedings