Legal Opinion
Madera v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Communities & Development
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 22, 1994PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
The defendant, the Secretary of the Executive Office of Communities and Development (EOCD), has appealed from a partial judgment entered in the Housing Court for Hampden County which granted summary judgment pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 56 (a), 365 Mass. 824 (1974), to the plaintiff, Jesus Madera, who had been denied public housing by the Springfield Housing Authority (authority).2 The judgment ordered the EOCD to treat the plaintiff’s administrative appeal from the authority’s denial of his application for public housing as requiring a formal adjudicatory proceeding under G. L. c. 30A, §§ 1…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Lyng v. PayneSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- James Holmes v. New York City Housing AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968
- Yorke Management v. CastroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Fincher v. South Bend Heritage FoundationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2010
- Rivas v. Chelsea Housing AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
- Wojcik v. Lynn Housing AuthorityMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2006
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