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COLONIAL TAVERN, INC. v. BOSTON LICENSING BOARD

384 Mass. 372 (1981)

425 N.E.2d 284

COLONIAL TAVERN, INC. & another vs. BOSTON LICENSING BOARD & others (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 13, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Foskett for the city of Boston & another.

Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr., Assistant Attorney General (Gerald J. Caruso, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Attorney General.

Edward T. Dangel, III (Michael K. Mattchen with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, & LYNCH, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

The plaintiffs, two corporations holding alcoholic beverages licenses from the Boston Licensing Board (board), claim that they sustained $1.5 million damages as a result of a vote of the board ordering a rollback of the plaintiff-licensees' closing times as a condition of retaining their licenses. The plaintiff corporations, in the course of voluntary bankruptcy proceedings, filed complaints pursuant to 42 U.S...

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