Legal Opinion
Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts, Inc. v. National Real Estate Information Services
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 21, 2010No. 08-1451PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
In November 2006 the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts, Inc. (“REBA”) brought suit in state court against National Real Estate Information Services, Inc., later also naming National Real Estate Information Services (collectively “NREIS”), as REBA was given standing to do as a bar association under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 221, § 46B. REBA sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that certain activities NREIS engaged in constituted the unauthorized practice of law under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 221, §§ 46, 46A. Those activities stemmed from NREIS’s provision of…
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