COBB v. COBB


406 Mass. 21 (1989)

545 N.E.2d 1161

DIANE COBB vs. JAMES COBB.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Rankin for Diane Cobb.

James M. Shannon, Attorney General, & Jon Laramore, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Wayne A. Budd, United States Attorney, Anthony J. Steinmeyer & Jeffrica Jenkins Lee, of the District of Columbia, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, for Department of the Army, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The presiding justice of the Ayer Division of the District Court Department has reported two questions, pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 64, 365 Mass. 831 (1974), concerning his authority to issue a restraining order under G.L.c. 209A (1988 ed.) that would apply to residents of Fort Devens, an area that Massachusetts has ceded to the United States. See St. 1921, c. 456; St. 1933, c. 290; St. 1950, c. 778; St. 1966, c. 482.

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