CHONGRIS v. BOARD OF APPEALS OF TOWN OF ANDOVER

No. 86-1761.

811 F.2d 36 (1987)

James CHONGRIS and George Chongris, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. BOARD OF APPEALS OF the TOWN OF ANDOVER, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur H. Goldsmith, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs, appellants.

Gerald F. Blair with whom Avery, Dooley, Post & Avery, Boston, Mass., was on brief for defendants, appellees.

Suzanne E. Durrell, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief for intervenor.

Before BOWNES, Circuit Judge, ROSENN, Senior Circuit Judge, and SELYA, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

James Chongris and George Chongris, brothers by birth and appellants by choice, felt mistreated at the hands of the powers-that-were in the suburban municipality of Andover, Massachusetts (Town). After they instituted a routine state court appeal of a municipal edict which stripped them of a building permit, see generally Chongris v. Board of Appeals of Andover, 17 Mass.App. 999, 459 N.E.2d 1245 (1984) (Chongris I), they sought...

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