"Many of these priests went on to work with vulnerable populations: as public schoolteachers, scout leaders, or in social service fields." The report describes it in its section on what went wrong after the 2002 reforms.
Fall River: 92 accused, 469 survivors. Springfield: 93 and 259. Worcester: 90 and 216. The report says plainly why no one will be charged, and what the Legislature would have to change for survivors to recover more than $20,000.
On free public land, Massachusetts law protects the owner, even a town, unless its conduct was wilful, wanton or reckless. Missing a bad tree is not enough.
Two years of fighting over Turtleboy's phones, and the prosecutor told the judge he would try the case without them. His lawyers called it "burying the lead." Trial is December 7 with a Norfolk jury.
The state's theory was not bad service. It was that the company billed Lawrence for four months of hauling it knew it could not provide. That is a false claim, and the penalty is triple damages.
She spent $100,000 on a shelter after the city issued permits. Then the health department ruled a miniature horse is still a horse. She has 60 days to take it to court.
The case started in a Boston courtroom. Now the Supreme Court will decide it, and until it does, third-country deportations can resume. Two of the three questions are about whether the Boston judge had the power to rule at all.
"Where is the admission? Where does she say that she did this?" Reddington asked the judge. Paragraph 81 of her own lawsuit: "Lindsay proceeded to strangle each of her children."
Eight dates and deadlines, two courtrooms, and one ruling that could end it all before any of them arrives.
Sixty-three minutes in Judge Sullivan's courtroom, word for word: "There was no investigation." "A laughable argument." "I am so tired of hearing persecution." "Now no one wants to pick a trial date."
