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COMMONWEALTH v. PETRALIA

372 Mass. 452 (1977)

362 N.E.2d 513

COMMONWEALTH vs. GUY A. PETRALIA (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 29, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy A. Petralia, pro se.

Birge Albright, Special Counsel, for the city of Cambridge (James Sahakian, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth, with him).

Herbert P. Gleason, Corporation Counsel & Peter Koff, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the city of Boston, submitted a brief.

Charles Corkin, II, & Ellyn R. Weiss, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

The defendant, who has been charged with a parking violation in Cambridge, challenges the constitutionality of the regulation of the city's traffic director under which he was charged.2 He challenges the regulation because it permits only authorized residents of Cambridge to park their automobiles on the public street where he, a nonresident, parked his automobile. We conclude that the classification made by the regulation...

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