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Jun 18, 2025
Zoning – Affordable housing – Safe harbor
Where applications for comprehensive permits under G.L.c. 40B were denied by the Braintree zoning board, a decision by the Housing Appeals Committee reversing the board should be affirmed because the town did not establish that it qualified for the 1.5 percent safe harbor, nor did the HAC err in rejecting the board's denials based upon open space and fire safety concerns.
Verdicts & Settlements
- Injury during baby’s adenoidectomy leads to stroke
- Construction worker’s hand caught in cement mixer
- Worker trapped in freezer, dies during steam cleaning
- Pedestrian, 69, hit by motor vehicle while in crosswalk
- Four-vehicle pileup leaves driver with spinal cord injury
- Nursing home staff blamed for kidney-failure death
- Pharmacy’s late delivery blamed for patient’s death
- Man, 25, drowns after swimming lesson at fitness club
Opinion Digests
- Jurisdiction – Forum selection clause – Non-signatory
- Criminal – Responsibility
- Attorneys – Lien
- Landlord and tenant – Default judgment
- Zoning – Constructive grant – Comprehensive permit
- Fraud – False Claims Act – Settlement share
- Civil practice – Discovery – Cybersecurity
