BUSTER v. GEORGE W. MOORE, INC


438 Mass. 635 (2003)

JEFFREY BUSTER, individually and as trustee, & others v. GEORGE W. MOORE, INC., & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

February 11, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Fine for Jeffrey Buster & others.

Paul Killeen (Edward J. Naughton with him) for the defendants.

Andrew G. Lizotte, for Harold B. Murphy, was present but did not argue.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, SPINA, COWIN, & CORDY, JJ.


MARSHALL, C.J.

In this factually complex case, we are asked to consider, among other issues, whether economic coercion, in the absence of actual or potential physical coercion, may in any circumstance constitute "threats, intimidation or coercion" within the meaning of the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, G. L. c. 12, §§ 11H, 11I (act).4 We conclude that economic coercion alone may constitute...

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