GOOD CEMENT PARTITIONS MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS?

Read this case from Massachusetts and judge for yourselves: Commonwealth vs. Joanne M. SANTOS. No. 02-P-206, released on August 1, 2003, and you can reach it through this page (go to slip opinions of Massachusetts Appeals Courts). The question involved was whether a conviction of "trespass by agency" should stand. The case involved a heated property dispute between neighbors over ten feet of driveway, a fruit stand, and a contracted crane operator's swinging cement blocks over disputed driveway space in order to wall off a boundary. Oh, and tucked away at the end of the opinion: a false police report [actually, an acquittal on charges of filing one] and damage to the inside of a police cruiser [actually, allegations thereof; charges dismissed]. Somehow I doubt the problems are over in that neighborhood.

And while you're there, don't forget to bookmark this page, so you have a link to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health once it is released.

More: I fixed the broken link above; now you should be able to get to the opinion with a few easy clicks.