Legal Opinion
Plante v. Wylie
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 11, 2005No. 03-P-1122PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCohen, J.
Shortly after the Bolton Conservation Trust derailed the plaintiffs’ efforts to win approval for expansion of their subdivision development, the plaintiffs filed suit against the conservation trust’s attorney, David A. Wylie, alleging that Wylie violated the State civil rights act, the Federal RICO statute, and G. L. c. 93A, in his communications to them regarding title problems in the subdivision. A judge of the Superior Court denied Wylie’s special motion to dismiss pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 59H (the anti-SLAPP statute), on the ground that the suit was not based solely upon protected…
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