Real property – Administrative exhaustion – Agricultural land
BOSTON, MA - Where the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources denied an application to build a dwelling, barn and equipment shed on farm land that is subject to ...More

Jurisdiction – Foster care
BOSTON, MA - Where a plaintiff whose grandchildren were placed elsewhere filed a complaint in the Superior Court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, the dismissal of ...More

Patent and trademark – Invalidity theories
BOSTON, MA - Where a plaintiff has moved for partial summary judgment on four of the defendant’s invalidity theories, that motion should be allowed as to the defense of indefiniteness ...More

Civil rights – Alternate service – Futility
BOSTON, MA - Where a plaintiff has moved for leave to amend his complaint to add a deceased State Police officer as a defendant and to serve process on the commonwealth as the ...More

Consumer protection – Fee – MassHealth
BOSTON, MA - Where the defendants’ policy of charging and collecting a fee from MassHealth patients for missing or cancelling an appointment violated MassHealth rules and long-published ...More

Appeals – G.L.c. 214, §1
BOSTON, MA - Where a single justice denied a petitioner’s request to be appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court's standing committee on pro bono legal services and to the Board ...More

Administrative – Humanitarian parole programs – DHS
BOSTON, MA - Where plaintiffs have challenged actions taken by the Department of Homeland Security regarding humanitarian parole programs, the plaintiffs should be permitted ...More