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...north, Honduras to the south and Guatemala to the west. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was the haunt of Spanish bucaneros and English slavers, of logwood cutters and warm-sea riffraff. In 1981 it achieved independence, and today it is the last fragment of the British Commonwealth on Central American soil, the smallest sovereign state on the whole continent (pop. about 200,000) and politically the least eventful...
Woodlock also dismissed four of the seven claims brought by the 16 individual plaintiffs who in October filed suit with then-Attorney General James M. Shannon. The suit charged four Cambridge city officials and four private citizens with engaging in a "racially-motivated conspiracy" that forced the predominantly Black Commonwealth Day School to leave the city almost two years...
Judge Douglas Woodlock yesterday eliminated the Attorney General's Office as a player in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Arthur Brooks et al, on the grounds that the attorney general does not have standing to bring the suit on the federal level...
...suit which then-Attorney General Shannon and the parents of 16 Commonwealth Day students filed in October named as defendants Commissioner of Inspectional Services Joseph Cellucci, former Commissioner of the Department of Public Works (DPW) William Summers, DPW inspector Daniel Evans and another unidentified DPW inspector. In addition, the attorney general named Arthur and Jean Brooks of 115 Brattle St. and Ralph and Charlotte Sorenson of 117 Brattle...
...suit charges that the defendants waged a systematic campaign of harassment that eventually led the Commonwealth Day School to leave its 113 Brattle St. location in August 1989, after a one-year stay...