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GLOBE NEWSPAPER v. BEACON HILL ARCHITECTURAL COMM'N

421 Mass. 570 (1996)

GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY & others vs. BEACON HILL ARCHITECTURAL COMMISSION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Devereaux, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the defendant.

James C. Heigham for the plaintiffs.

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

LIACOS, C.J.

In 1991, the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission (commission) issued an amendment to its architectural guidelines prohibiting the placement of newsracks within the Historic Beacon Hill District (district) within Boston. The commission sent letters to various newspaper publishers, requesting that they remove their newsracks from the district. The plaintiff newspapers (newspapers) commenced litigation in the United States District Court for the District...

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