Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 4, 1989PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. (A & P), was found guilty on three complaints charging it with unlawfully keeping open its Dennisport and Province-*477town stores in violation of G. L. c. 136, § 5 (1986 ed.), the Sunday closing law.1 It was fined $40 plus a $15 victim-witness fee on each complaint. The activity that formed the basis for the complaints was the sale of canned food items before noon on Sunday.
The defendant filed a motion to dismiss supported by a statement of agreed facts. According to this statement, a police officer entered the A & P store in Dennisport on Sunday,…
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