Passatempo v. McMenimen

This is Frederick McMenimen’s second improper attempt to secure interlocutory relief from a certain ruling in the trial court. In McMenimen v. Passatempo, 452 Mass. 178 (2008) (McMenimen I), we affirmed the denial of a G. L. c. 211, § 3, petition that he had filed in the county court. In the petition, he sought interlocutory review of the denial in the trial court of a motion to dismiss that he had filed in the underlying civil action against him. The basis for that motion was his argument that G. L. c. 175, § 181, which the plaintiffs in the underlying action asserted McMenimen had violated,…