Legal Opinion
Brooks v. Architectural Barriers Board
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 2, 1982PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
Brooks is a disabled person confined to a wheelchair. With others no longer parties, he sought in the Superior Court judicial review of a decision by which the Architectural Barriers Board (ABB) refrained from exercising its jurisdiction with respect to a Boston motion picture theatre (the theatre). The theatre, known as Sack Beacon Hill 1-2-3, is in the basement of a multistory structure (the structure) known as One Beacon Street.
ABB exists by virtue of G. L. c. 22, § 13A, as appearing in St. 1974, c. 528, § 1. (Subsequent amendments in St. 1979, c. 661, and St. 1981, c. 346, § 1, have no…
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