Judicial Profiles
- Reported Decisions
Opinions Summarized in Lawyers Weekly
- Zoning – Solar facility – Special permit
- Real property – Condominium – Outdoor dining
- Real property – Settlement – Release
- Real property – Right of first refusal – Manufactured housing
- Zoning – Affordable housing – Easement
- Zoning – Standing – Variances
- Real property – Limitations – Resulting trust
- Zoning – Standing – Hotel
- Zoning – Prior owners – Necessary parties
- Zoning – Standing – Abutter
- Real property – Easement – Equitable contribution
- Real property – Adverse possession
- Zoning – Dover Amendment – Communal living
- Zoning – Standing
- Zoning – Appeal bond – Affordable housing
- Zoning – Special permits – Single-family dwellings
- Real property – Easement – Driveway
- Real property – Easement – Dock access
- Zoning – Special permit – Self-storage facility
- Zoning – Timber – Scrub pine
- Real property – Jurisdiction – Betterment
- Zoning – Amended comprehensive permit – Untimely appeal
- Civil practice – Rule 8 – Counterclaim amendment
- Sellers can’t force buyer to sell home back to them
- Real property – Subdivision – Waivers
- Real property – Side agreement – Modification
- Zoning – Standing – Special permit
- Zoning – Bond – Standing
- Zoning – Special permit – Subject matter jurisdiction
- Zoning – Standing – Addition
- Mortgages – Res judicata
- Real property – Easement – Parking
- Buyer can enforce five-year-old P&S agreement
- Real property – Option – Tenancy agreement
- 5-year-old P&S agreement remains binding
- Real property – P&S agreement – Waiver
- Real property – Statute of Frauds – Detrimental reliance
- Mortgages – Claim preclusion – Issue preclusion
- Jurisdiction – Subject matter – Land Court
- Real property – Adverse possession – Driveway
- Jurisdiction – Land Court – Trust
- Real property – Tax taking – Interest
- Real property – Adverse possession
- Zoning – Standing – Comprehensive permit
- Mortgages – Sovereign immunity – Res judicata
- Real property – Special permit – Recreational trail easement
- Zoning – Standing – Traffic
- Zoning – Merger – Division
- Zoning – Standing – Shadows
- Real property – Adverse possession – Fence
- Zoning – Replacement home – Dimensional nonconformity
- Zoning – Solid waste transfer station – Site plan review
- Zoning – Special permit – Self-storage facility
- Zoning – Site plan approval – Special permit
- Zoning – Solar project – Rural residential district
- Municipal – Subdivision plan – ‘LID’ techniques
- Mortgages – Reformation – Mutual mistake
- Zoning – Frontage variance – Paper street
- Zoning – Lapse – Special permit – Site plan approval
- Real property – Easement – Dock
- Real property – Trustee – Guardianship
- Mortgages – Foreclosure sale – Fee interest
- Real property – Condominium – G.L.c. 183A
- Real property – Prescriptive easement – Driveway
- Real property – Sale – Reformation
- Real property – Condominium – Unanimous consent rule
- Zoning – Library – Dover Amendment
- Zoning – Standing – ‘General civic interest’
- Zoning – Entry fee – G.L.c. 40A, section17
- Real property – Private way – Certificates of title
- Zoning – Home reconstruction – Nonconformity
- Zoning – Standing – ‘Light pollution’
- Zoning – Special permit – Pier
- Mortgages – Claim preclusion – Foreclosure
- Municipal – Public way – Maintenance and repair
