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BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY v. BRIDGEWATERS

SJC-10107

452 Mass. 833 (2009)

BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY v. EMMITT BRIDGEWATERS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 7, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Jochnick (Richard M.W. Bauer & James M. McCreight with her) for the defendant.

Jay S. Koplove for the plaintiff.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Thomas P. Murphy for Disability Law Center & others.

Paul R. Collier, III, & Esme Caramello for Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless & others.

Susan Ann Silverstein & Michael Schuster for AARP.

Susan C. Cohen & Lisa L. Walker for Cambridge Housing Authority & another.

Amy Copperman & Judith Liben for Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants.

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

MARSHALL, C.J.

This is an appeal by Emmitt Bridgewaters from a judgment of the Boston Division of the Housing Court Department awarding possession of his apartment to the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), and denying Bridgewaters's postjudgment motions to alter or amend the judgment and for relief from the judgment. A judge in the Housing Court concluded that Bridgewaters had violated a provision of his lease by "committing a crime on the public housing development...

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