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PALLAZOLA v. FOXBOROUGH

418 Mass. 639 (1994)

640 N.E.2d 460

JON PALLAZOLA vs. TOWN OF FOXBOROUGH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 12, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Elcock (Ralph C. Sullivan & Leonard H. Kesten with him) for the defendant.

George A. McLaughlin, III (Theodore E. Daiber with him) for the plaintiff.

Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, Howard R. Meshnick & Eleanor Coe Sinnott, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Liacos, C.J., Wilkins, Abrams, Lynch, O'Connor, & Greaney, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

The plaintiff was seriously injured on a public way in the town of Foxborough after attending a December 22, 1985, New England Patriots football game. He recovered a $100,000 judgment against the town based on the town's failure to provide sufficient police protection and its failure to prevent the unlawful removal from the stadium of a portion of an aluminum goalpost. The plaintiff was injured when fans, carrying...

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