Levasseur argued he had never been violent. The court said that was the wrong question, and that failing to answer the right one was fatal to his case.
The claim is not a close call, one lawyer said. The details are. Who to sue, which posts, and whether tonight's interview changes the standard a judge would apply.
Restoring the systems solves the operational problem. It does not publish a cause, and most municipalities never do. Here is what is still owed and how to find out whether a notice was filed.
The 2022 federal report faulted the T for sacrificing daily safety to capital projects, and faulted its regulator for being unable to oversee it at all. Closing the intervention is a judgment about the regulator as much as the railroad.
States have been winning the administrative law merits and losing the remedies. The reason is a jurisdictional holding from an unsigned Supreme Court order that now governs every federal grant termination case in the country.
The SJC narrowed the substantive test and made appellate review de novo at the same time, producing more appeals decided on a harder standard. That is the machinery running underneath Friday's ruling.
Thirty days in a house of correction, three years of probation, and a forfeited pension he had already drawn a million dollars from. The forfeiture is automatic on final conviction and returns only his own contributions, at zero interest.
Nothing malfunctioned and nobody misused anything. The system worked exactly as configured, and nobody in the department had read the configuration. That is a third kind of failure, and it needs a different fix.
Costs a town incurs from its own choices about how to comply are not an unfunded mandate. That holding closes the argument dozens of towns have been making at town meeting, and it leaves only a narrow path for the next challenger.
The parents say a counselor reported them for resisting a transition. The Governor says the removal followed criminal charges. Court records describe an assault. Both accounts can hold true facts, because they answer different questions decided by different bodies.
