Charger Investments, Inc. v. City of Revere

When the plaintiffs’requests for preliminary injunctions against the defendants’ enforcement of an allegedly unconstitutional licensing regulation were denied, they claimed appeals pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 118 (second paragraph), as appearing in St. 1977, c. 405, and they also sought relief before a single justice of this court pursuant to the first paragraph of § 118. When the single justice denied their petitions, they claimed appeals. All the plaintiffs’ appeals were consolidated for argument before this court. Mass.R.A.P. 3(b), 365 Mass. 846 (1974).

1. In reliance upon Commonwealth v.…