THE Massachusetts Court of Appeals has agreed to take up a dispute about the government of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston.It will consider whether a lower court should have rejected a request to dismiss a lawsuit against former and present church officials.Church officers had ...
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The Appeals Court affirmed. In considering whether the lack of notice by mail tolled the period for the plaintiffs to appeal the special permit decision, the court started, as is typical, with the statutory language. Relying on (1) the language requiring mailed notice to “be sent by mail,...
AddressingPurcell,the appeals court claimed that it had at least put “voters on notice now while they still have at least some time to adjust their plans and cast their votes in an unquestionably lawful way.” The mess the court has made for election officials is extensive. Simon on Thursda...
InBaker, the Appeals Court adopted this rationale and stated whether such a fiduciary relationship to, in the case of individual members of a limited liability company, exists, is “largely a question of fact.” Reversing the granting of a motion to dismiss, the Appeals Court found that when...
Even if law-abiding citizens have a right to possess handguns and rifles, high-powered weaponry is beyond any reasonable interpretation of SecondAmendment rights. As Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, wrote (http://lat.ms/1ZR6LAm), “assault wea...
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has rejected the federal government’s application of a “mandatory” immigration detention provision that prevents certain noncitizens from requesting release on bond during their immigration proceedings. The ruling came Monday afternoon in a pair of cases—...
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