Donovan v. City of Woburn

Since 1995, Peter J. Donovan, the appellant, has been engaged in a sustained and unsuccessful effort to obtain a “package store” liquor license, see G. L. c. 138, § 15, from the License Commission of Woburn (commission) so that he could operate what he describes as a business selling corporate gift baskets containing high-end wines and spirits. The commission denied his most recent application on August 5, 2003. Donovan challenged the denial in a certiorari-like action in Superior *376Court. See G. L. c. 249, § 4. A judge of that court granted summary judgment in favor of the commission and…