STEINMETZ v. COYLE & CARON, INC.

No. 16-1996.

862 F.3d 128 (2017)

John W. STEINMETZ; Jane C. Steinmetz, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. COYLE & CARON, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 29, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Steinmetz , for appellants.

Evan Fray-Witzer , with whom Ciampa Fray-Witzer, LLP was on brief, for appellee.

Richard J. Yurko , Sanford F. Remz , Noemi Kawamoto , Yurko, Salvesen & Remz, P.C., and Sarah Wunsch , Boston, MA, on brief for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amicus curiae.

Christopher T. Bavitz , Cyberlaw Clinic, Harvard Law School, Bruce Brown , Idaho Springs, CO, Gregg P. Leslie , and D. Victoria Baranetsky on brief for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, The Associated Press, Gannett Co., Inc., New England First Amendment Coalition, and New England Newspaper and Press Association, Inc., amici curiae.

Before Lynch, Selya, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


Prevented from building a new home in Cohasset, Massachusetts by the Cohasset Conservation Commission, plaintiffs John W. Steinmetz and Jane C. Steinmetz brought this lawsuit alleging state law claims of negligence, gross negligence, defamation, and violation of the Massachusetts consumer protection statute, Mass. Gen. Laws...

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