Victory Distributors, Inc. v. Ayer Division of the District Court Department

Victory Distributors, Inc. (Victory), appeals from the decisions of a single justice of this court denying its two petitions under G. L. c. 211, § 3. Victory sought orders from the single justice compelling the Ayer Division of the District Court Department (Ayer court) and the Marlborough Division of the District Court Department (Marlborough court) to “[a]c-cept, process, hold show cause hearings and decide on the *137merits” its applications for criminal complaints.1 Although Victory alleges that the Ayer court and the Marlborough court refused to accept its applications, a clerk-magistrate in…