BOSTON v. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY


364 Mass. 639 (1974)

308 N.E.2d 488

CITY OF BOSTON vs. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert P. Gleason, Corporation Counsel (Peter Koff, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with him) for the city of Boston.

David C. Hawkins (John M. Reed with him) for Vappi & Company, Inc.

Joseph L. Cotter for South Terminal Corporation & others.

John M. Harrington, Jr. (John Silas Hopkins, III, & Robert P. Nash of Illinois, with him) for Massachusetts Port Authority & others.

Thomas B. Arnold for the Sierra Club, Harley F. Laing, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Executive Office for Environmental Affairs, & Robert L. Thompson, Assistant Regional Counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency, Region I, submitted briefs as amici curiae.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


TAURO, C.J.

The city of Boston filed a bill in equity in the Superior Court pursuant to G.L.c. 231 A and c. 214, § 10A,1 to enjoin the construction by the defendant Massachusetts Port Authority (Authority) of a major new passenger terminal and automobile parking garage at the General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport (Logan Airport). The plaintiff requested, in addition to injunctive...

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