Legal Opinion
West Broadway Task Force, Inc. v. Commissioner of Department of Community Affairs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 20, 1973PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
This suit demanded a declaration and injunction with respect to alleged substandard physical conditions at a State-aided, low-rent housing development in the city of Boston. The Superior Court entered interlocutory decrees sustaining demurrers to the bill of complaint without leave to amend, and thereafter entered a final decree dismissing the bill. The plaintiffs appeal from these decrees.
One corporate and eight individual plaintiffs filed the bill on May 19, 1970. The plaintiff West Broadway Task Force, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation composed of certain tenants living in, and elected to…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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3Cited by24 opinions
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