ROBINSON v. COMMONWEALTH

No. 90-P-830.

32 Mass. App. Ct. 6 (1992)

584 N.E.2d 636

YANCY H. ROBINSON vs. COMMONWEALTH & others.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

January 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meade G. Burrows for the plaintiff.

Deirdre Heatwole for the defendants.

Present: ARMSTRONG, SMITH, & PORADA, JJ.


PORADA, J.

After the final game of the 1986 World Series in which the New York Mets beat the Boston Red Sox, the plaintiff, a black student at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, claims, he was beaten by a group of white students because of his race. He brought an action in the Superior Court against the Commonwealth under the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act for its negligence in failing to provide adequate security to protect him (Count I) and against the Chancellor...

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