TABLE OF CONTENTS
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II. Statement of Issues.
TIL. Summary...
IV. Parties.,
V. Jurisdiction
VI. Argument.
VIT. Prayer for Relief.
A, Did the trial court err in denying Defendant's
constitutional due process right to appeal by requiring then to
purchase justice, i.e., either to use money they need for the
necessities of life in order to pay an appeal bond, or forego
their appeal?
B, Did the trial court err by failing to recognize the
constitutional purpose of the Massachusetts court indigency
laws, as upheld in Reade v. Galvin?
c. Did the trial court err in failing to recognize that a
litigant might not be indigent prior to the imposition of
an appeal bond or a “use and occupancy” payment, but that
the very imposition of such a bond or payment might render
the litigant eligible for a sliding scale amount, in order
to preserve the litigant’s ability to invoke the right of
appeal?
D. Did the trial court err in failing to recognize that the
“non-frivolous” threshold for appeals is minimal?
EB. Did the trial court err in imposing a greater amount
than that of a traditional Supersedeas Bond on a basis
where no applicable statute permits imposition of any other
than a Supersedeas Bond?
F. Did the trial court err in imposing rent-based appeal
bonds pursuant to MGL c. 239, §§1 and 6, where the court
failed to review petitioner~appellants’ evidence-based challenges to plaintiff’s
claimed ownership and standing?
G. Did the trial court err by ignoring the statutory
limitation as to only “rent” and the contractual tenancy
required to create a rent obligation?
H. Did the trial court err in ignoring the explicit language of
MGL c, 239 §5 which only authorizes an order of periodic
payments for “rent as it becomes due,"? Did the trial court err
in ordering “use and occupancy” payments post judgment, where
the only statutory authority, MGh c. 239 §3 is limited to
leased and rented premises?
I. Did the judge violate fundamental constitutional equal
protection by vastly overbroad inclusion of defendants in
purported post foreclosure cases in the same class as standard
full tenancies?
J. Did the trial court err by failing to recognize that a
Plaintiff who never had a right to receive rent payments
could not expect to receive a “reasonable rent”?
K, Did the trial court err in ignoring explicit language in
Plaintiff's Notice to Quit, which language estops the
Plaintiff from requesting or receiving rent for any
purpose?
I. Having ordered post judgment rent and thus created a tenancy,
did the trial court err in not dismissing Plaintiffs’ complaints
founded upen holdover occupancy?
M. Did the Single Justices err in not distinguishing case
law covering established landlord tenant relationships and
cases where the underlying title to the property had been
challenged as prerequisite under MGL c.239 §1 and MGL ¢.239
§6 and thereby unjustly apply MGL c.239 $5 procedural
limitation to bar defendants from appealing to a full
appeal panel?
N. Did the Promulgator of Forms err in assuming that a rent~
based appeal bond under MGL c. 239, §5, applied in a post-
foreclosure summary process eviction case, and that, in order to
Appeal, a Defendant must either pay this cash bond or get it
waived?Table of Authorities
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Massachusetts Constitution of 1780
article 1
Article CVI
article x
Article XI
Article XIT
Article XII
articles xv
Articles XXIII
Article XXIX
statutes
MGL Chap. 211, s. 3
MGL Chap. 1518, $ 1 (17),
NGL Chap. 211, § 3
MGL 262 section 4b
MGL Chap. 261 $27
MGL Chap.261 $27¢ (4)
MGL Chapter 186A
NGL Chapter 261 § 27.
MGL under chapter 186A
Rules
District Court Special Rule 211
MRP 8 (b) (3)
Rules for the Land Court (Land Court Order 1-06:
Recordation of Proceedings)
Supreme Judicial Court Rule 2:22
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