Legal Opinion
Patterson v. Omnipoint Communications, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided November 21, 2000No. 1:99-cv-12336PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
TAURO, District Judge.
I. Introduction
This Memorandum concerns two related actions filed by the same Plaintiffs, ten residents from the neighboring towns of Scituate and Cohasset. The permitting and construction of a wireless communications relay tower (“relay tower”) in Scituate, near that town’s border with Cohasset, provides the backdrop to both cases. The issue presented is whether, a local zoning board must follow state and local procedures for issuing a special permit when granting that permit pursuant to a federal court order. Federal question jurisdiction rests on the…
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