| Docket # | SJC-10482 |
| Date | November 3, 2009 |
| Video | View oral argument with Windows Media Player |
Summary (prepared by Suffolk University Law School) | Administrative Law-- This is a challenge to legislation that served to validate a regulation of the Department of Environmental Protection exempting a commercial development from a licensure requirement regarding landlocked tidelands. |
| Appealed From | Middlesex Superior Court, Justice Herman J. Smith, Jr. |
| Briefs | See selection available in PDF format at Supreme Judicial Court website |
Counsel for Appellant (Appearing) | Yarden: Thomas B. Bracken |
Counsel for Appellee (Appearing) | Department of Environmental Protection: Seth Schofield, Bruce E. Falby |
| Amici Curiae | National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, Massachusetts; Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts; The Abstract Club |