Word: rent
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Charles A. Ash, a Cambridge rent control tenant, filed suit against the state attorney general last summer, charging that revocation of the rent control laws would violate the local autonomy of Cambridge, Boston and Brookline, the three communities with rent control laws...
Fried wrote the introduction to a brief supporting the state's position. In that introduction, he ridiculed the plaintiffs' argument that a referendum to kill rent control would violate local autonomy...
...strange kind of ratchet that would require consent of the people of the Commonwealth as a whole before a locality may impose rent control, but then that would foreclose, in the name of local autonomy, that same general authority from thinking better of it and withdrawing the consent," Fried wrote in the April 29, 1994 brief...
...What we saw was something much more intemperate and utterly inappropriate for someone who would serve on the court," Turk said, saying he was disturbed by Fried's opposition to rent control...
...From what he has said, we believe that he could not be impartial in adjudicating and interpreting [local] laws," Turk said. "His view of home rule is one that we think is very damaging to the powers of localities, and that extends far beyond rent control to the way in which the Commonwealth itself is constructed...