Legal Opinion
Teel v. Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 30, 1982PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPerretta, J.
In September of 1975, the defendant school district advised the plaintiff Teel that his children, Mark and Lorie, could not be enrolled in the Hamilton-Wenham Regional public school system because they resided in Essex and not in Hamilton. G. L. c. 76, § 5, as amended by St. 1973, c. 925, § 9A (“Every person shall have a right to attend the public schools of the town where he actually resides”) . Claiming to be a resident of Hamilton, Teel sought and obtained injunctive relief against the school district, prohibiting it from excluding Mark and Lorie from its schools. The school district’s…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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