Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Planning Board
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 24, 1995PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
The plaintiff, Eliot R. Freeman, brought an action in the Superior Court against the town of West Boylston (town), acting through its planning board (board), and certain members of the planning board individually.2 The plaintiff’s action sought damages on the basis of claims that the defendants, in connection with the plaintiff’s efforts to obtain approval of a definitive subdivision plan pursuant to G. L. c. 41, §§ 8IK et seq. (1992 ed.), deprived him of his substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and violated the Massachusetts Civil…
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