ATTORNEY GEN. v. ADMIN. JUSTICE, BOSTON MUN. CT. DEPT.


384 Mass. 511 (1981)

427 N.E.2d 735

ATTORNEY GENERAL vs. ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE OF THE BOSTON MUNICIPAL COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, Thomas R. Kiley, Donald K. Stern & E. Michael Sloman, Assistant Attorneys General, for the plaintiff.

Max Volterra for the defendant.

James J. Cotter, III, for Jean Coles & others, amici curiae.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & NOLAN, JJ.


HENNESSEY, C.J.

The Attorney General commenced this action by a complaint filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County. He seeks an order in the nature of quo warranto (G.L.c. 249, § 9), or, alternatively, an order pursuant to the court's general superintendence power (G.L.c. 211, § 3), declaring that the defendant, the Administrative Justice of the Boston Municipal Court Department of the Trial Court, is not also the Administrative

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